Best Japanese dishes to try in Maldives
Venturing into the world of Japanese food!
You might be very curious as to how you could savour Japanese food from a tropical island in the Indian Ocean that is thousands of miles away from Japan. The answer lies in the fact that the archipelago is home to a number of restaurants that serve authentic Japanese food and here are some of our picks of best Japanese food items you can find in these restaurants in Maldives.
Sushi
Surrounded by a sea that is rich in marine life, Japanese restaurants in Maldives serve you some of the freshest seafood items you could ever taste. One of the seafood items that the Japanese love very much is Shushi; if you don’t know what Sushi is, it is a dish prepared with specially cooked vinegared rice that is combined with a variety of ingredients, such as seafood, vegetables, and occasionally tropical fruits and served attractively in many ways. You can savour this dish in restaurants like 135° East which is a restaurant at Maafushivaru Maldives.
Teppanyaki Dishes
Teppanyaki is a popular style of Japanese cuisine that involves the usage of an iron griddle to cook food. A variety of ingredients such as shrimp, steak, chicken and many other varieties of meat and vegetables are grilled right in front of your eyes and served piping hot directly from the griddle. You can savour Teppanyaki dishes in almost all the Japanese restaurants in Maldives.
Sashimi
Sashimi is a Japanese delicacy that consists of fresh and raw fish that is thinly sliced into bite-sized pieces and eaten with wasabi paste and soy sauce. Even though the original recipe is made from fresh fish or other seafood, Sashimi is also available with meat choices such as chicken, beef and horse meat.
Ramen
If you are stationed in any of the resorts that have a Japanese restaurant, you can savour a hearty breakfast with Ramen; a staple Japanese breakfast food that is made with boiled wheat noodles that are served in a bowl served in soy sauce or Miso soup broth. The noodles is mixed with many kinds of ingredients that includes a variety of meat and vegetables this dish certainly makes dining in Maldives an exciting experience and it is a food that is worth trying.
Intrigued by history, art and food, Lavinia Woolf is a writer who is passionate about the extraordinary and writes of the exhilarating and enchanting.