As if raw fish wasn't enough, a hotel restaurant is spicing up their sushi meals. They're giving customers to option of eating sushi that is served on the body of a nude model.
Kung Fu Kitchen and Sushi at the Catalina Hotel & Beach Club in Miami Beach will serve a complete sushi dinner on top of a naked woman or man. For $500 and up, the restaurant places up to five to six feet of sushi on top of one of their beautiful staff members. The meal could feed up to 15 people.
"It's mostly for groups, parties, bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, birthday parties. You call in advance or pop in and hopefully we have someone that wants to take their clothes off and lie on a table," Nathan Lieberman, the owner of King Fu Kitchen and Sushi told Local 10.
Customers can choose from sushi, sashimi, rolls and more, which are laid out on a naked human. "The chef basically makes an omakase, which is the Japanese word for chef's choice," the restaurant's owner, Nathan Lieberman, told Local 10.
Lieberman's staff gladly volunteers to strip down and act as a sushi platter. He hasn't had to hire professional models. "I have a very good-looking staff," Lieberman told ABC. "They said, 'We want the money, and we like to be naked.'"
So far, the restaurant has had three naked feasts as the deal is offered throughout Miami's restaurant month, Miami Spice. The restaurant manager removes the sushi from his staff's body, with the exception of a bacehlor being able to remove one piece.
The practice of serving sushi on a naked body, also known as Nyotaimori, was banned in China in 2005 due to health reasons and moral issues.
However the Miami restaurant is taking precautions. The sushi doesn't touch the bare skin of the models as it is placed on top of leaves and plates. The models also thoroughly wash themselves before becoming sushi dishes.
"There's a lot of things you don't think about when it comes to naked sushi," Lieberman told ABC. "Now, we put plastic over the nipples, like Saran, and then we cover the nipples in wasabi."
"Generally speaking, as long as the restaurant is adhering to FDA rules regarding no bare skin contact, it should be in compliance," Sandi Poreda, a spokeswoman for Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation, told ABC.
The nude sushi platter deal will continue until September 30.
