Ruby Tan pop-up restaurant at Weinhaus Neuerburg in Kasel, Ruwertal, Digi Mart USA News (Kasel, Ruwertal, Germany): Asia meets the Ruwertal: sushi chef Ruby Tan and Marco Dühr are bringing fusion cuisine to the historic Weinhaus Neuerburg in Kasel for two months. The preparations are in full swing, and Tan is watching the clock as the evening approaches.
An invited group of guests is set to experience her cooking at an exclusive eight-course menu. The table is already festively set, and the kitchen has entered its most intense phase.
“We want to show a cross-section of Ruby’s cuisine today,” explains Marco Dühr. The menu opens with scallops, followed by various sushi courses, and concludes with duck.
Tan wants her guests to ease into her food gradually.
“I want them to slowly get used to my food – first cold, then warm dishes. That way they can get to know my cooking step by step.”
Tan taught herself to cook. “The feeling of individual ingredients on the tongue and their flavors inspire me to create new combinations and arrangements.” She rarely relies on classic recipes, instead experimenting and combining ingredients to develop dishes that are hard to find anywhere else.
“It is important to me to offer something that cannot simply be copied.” Her passion for cooking began at age eight, when her grandfather, himself a chef, taught her much of what she knows. Her aunt is also successful in the restaurant business, operating 15 restaurants in the United States and one in Taishan City, China.
