Japanese cuisine is attracting growing interest in the city, as evidenced not only by the many small restaurants and noodle or gyoza bars (gyoza are filled Japanese dumplings), but also by various special events. About the Ramen pop-up restaurant of the Munich chef Felix Adebahr in the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory between May 17th and June 23rd was recently reported here. It has the advantage that it runs for a few weeks and you can choose when you go.
Things are different with two other dates, because they are literally unique, and on the same day, May 17th. In the writing of the Munich two-star chef Tohru Nakamurawho already has good family relations with Japan, two Kakigori experts will be guests with their creations. Kakigori, which is Japanese ice cream that is scraped into flakes from a block of ice and can be refined with fruit and milk. The specialty originated centuries ago in the city of Nara, which was once Japan’s capital around 800 and later a popular summer residence for the nobility. Today there is an annual Kakigori festival called Shirayuki (“white snow”). The co-founders of the festival Keiko Okada and Sousuke Hirai are about to visit Germany and show their art in Berlin and Munich – and here in the carpentry workshop. A small group can book places and taste three of the culinary works of art for 60 euros (Kakigori in the Schreiberei, Friday, May 17th, 4-6 p.m., Dienerstraße 20, 60 euros per person, reservation by phone 089/21529172 or on www.schreiberei-muc.de).
If you then take tram 19 in the direction of Pasing after enjoying the shaved ice cream and drive a few stops, you can easily reach it by 7 p.m Meating room in the west end. On this day there will be a five-course tasting dinner based on sake, i.e. rice wine, with the somewhat silly title For God’s Sake! instead of. Sake sommelier Dora from importer Worldsake will present at least six different sakes (in English). There is a corresponding menu for this. However, this is not a purely Japanese menu, but rather a crossover menu with Bavarian sprinkles (for example with a Bavarian shrimp) and is predominantly vegetarian (For God’s Sake! Tasting and dinner, Friday, May 17th, 7 p.m., Meatingraum, Gollierstraße 38, per person 109 euros, registration by phone 0171/9931424 or on www.meatingraum.de ).