Yakitori & Sake brunch at Dum Dum Palace
We’ll gladly get out of bed on a Sunday for a Japanese feast. So make your way to restaurant Dum Dum Palace in Amsterdam on 2 July.
You get it—you have to go there. Various types of yakitori will be grilled, and all that juicy meat can be washed down with sake.
Yakitori
A charcoal grill will temporarily be built in the kitchen. Skewers with chicken hearts, chicken gizzards and crispy chicken skin will be grilled on it. Tender veal tongue will also be grilled. Chicken hearts and veal tongue a bit too much for a Sunday afternoon? They also have chicken thigh yakitori.
Sake & shochu
When it comes to sake, there’s plenty of choice: six different varieties, including a lightly sweet, sparkling sake. There are also four shochus. Shochu is sake’s stronger brother, which can be made not only from rice but also from sweet potato or barley. At Dum Dum Palace, for example, the menu features a barley-based, wood-aged variety. If you like whisky, this shochu was made for you.
Sake is the best-known Japanese drink outside Japan, but more shochu than sake is consumed in Japan. The drink is stronger than sake; shochu is distilled and often contains around 25 percent alcohol, while sake is fermented and often contains around 16 percent alcohol. Finally, there’s also soju (the Korean version of shochu). This spicy distillate is made from rice, pear, apple and ginger.
Doing well
Dum Dum Palace is the first restaurant from catering company HotMamaHot. The owners will open yet another restaurant next autumn: a Spanish place (with a cava list). We’ll keep you posted.
