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Known as one of the world’s best restaurants, Noma has recently moved to the Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo, Japan, for a two-month residency that offers diners a spectacular 15-course fixed menu.
One of the main attractions from its tasting menu is an imaginative dish that consists of raw shrimps topped with tiny, wild black ants.
According to a reviewer from The Japan Times, that ants’ “little pinpricks of sharp acidity” were a perfect complement to the “sweet, pink flesh” of the raw prawns.
Other palate-challenging dishes offered by Noma include the ‘Fermented black garlic leather’ and soba noodles made with raw squid.
Would you dare to give these dishes a try? Prices for the fixed menu, including wine pairing, cost approximately US$550 per head.
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Fermented black garlic leather. Grown up candy.
Cuttlefish "soba" & a cold broth of roses #nomajapan
Chilled cucumber & green strawberries - sake and basil flowers (raise you @dcpatterson) #nomajapan
[via Spoon & Tamago]