Nikkei Cuisine Coming to Macau

Photo: AJI is the first restaurant announced for the upcoming MGM Property, MGM Cotai

Nearly a dozen hotels are slated to open over the next few years in Macau, and each one will bring a handful of restaurants with them. Studio City, the next hotel-resort to open, will offer the standard Chinese and Italian restaurants; there will no doubt be a French restaurant at the Parisian (which opens in 2016); and while Wynn is being hush hush about what restaurants will be inside Wynn Palace (optimistically slated to open in March 2016), we’ve heard rumors of a steakhouse.

While all of the above mentioned offerings will no doubt be of a high standard (Michelin-starred in some cases we’re sure), we were intrigued when we heard about the first restaurant to be announced in the MGM Cotai.

Photo: Peruvian Chef Mitsuharu is an internationally-known ambassador of the new trendy Nikkei cuisine

AJI will see Peruvian-born chef Mitsuharu Tsumura bring the latest gastronomic sensation currently sweeping the globe to Macau - Nikkei cuisine. A fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisines, Nikkei is well established in South America and has recently broadened its horizons to Europe, but AJI will be the first restaurant of its type in Asia.

Photo: Bonito fish prepared in Yukke style

AJI (which means chili in Spanish and flavor in Japanese) will feature a ceviche bar, hibachi grill and a pisco bar which will offer sake, shochu and wine and quite possibly pisco sours.

The downside is that the hotel, and therefore the restaurant, won’t be open until fourth quarter of 2016. If you can’t possibly wait that long you could always fly to Lima and visit Tsumura’s Maido, which ranked 44 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants this year.

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