The Drawing Room Concepts’ restaurant at PMQ introduces the unusual ingredient into three new dishes

From January 25, Isono at the PMQ is launching a new dining promotion, celebrating plankton, made from a single-celled sea algae species called phytoplankton, one of the hottest products in cooking today. This month, the Drawing Room Concepts’ restaurant is utilizing this sustainable ingredients in three new dishes created and prepared by the chef Luca Marianelli, the restaurant’s chef de cuisine.

Regarded as the basis for life, phytoplankton originates from the ocean and is a vegetarian product foraged and harvested through a sustainable process. Fresh phytoplankton is ready to use in a green freeze-dried powder form. Highly nutritious and packed with various minerals and vitamins, the green algae adds a briny flavour and pack dishes with umami.

From January 25 to March 31, Isono’s chef de cuisine Luca Marianelli designed and created three dishes using phytoplankton, maximising the ingredient’s potential. The three notable dishes include:

- Plankton seafood paella (Isono’s seafood paella with plankton aioli )

- Carbonara di mare with plankton (plankton is added to both the sauce and the pasta dough)

- Ravioli with burrata, bottarga and plankton emulsion (plankton ravioli filled with burrata and ricotta)

The plankton promotion runs from January 25 to March 31.

Isono, 6/F, Block B, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central; +852 2156-0688