Why you should experience Heguì Taste of Asia in Milan, Italy.
Heguì Taste of Asia is an inventive Japanese restaurant where Maggiolina's architectural experimentation meets sushi craft shaped by Italian ingredients and a wider Chinese culinary foundation.
Set along Viale Marche near Via Murat and just steps from Maggiolina, the restaurant occupies a northern Milan pocket distinguished by the garden villas, Rationalist experiments and eccentric domed houses of the Villaggio dei Giornalisti. Dark walls, warm wood tones and a prominent sushi counter concentrate attention on preparation across a restrained contemporary dining room. Sushi establishes the primary encounter through nigiri, sashimi, gunkan, temaki and elaborate rolls assembled around raw fish, seared seafood and contrasting garnishes. Dim sum, teppanyaki and Chinese cooking introduce steaming, frying, grilling and wok heat as complementary techniques across the meal. The result is a northern Milan restaurant whose broad Asian repertoire becomes most individual when Japanese forms encounter foie gras, burrata, saffron, pistachio and prized Italian seafood.
What you should know about Heguì Taste of Asia.
Heguì Taste of Asia is best known for years of culinary experimentation led by Bin and the kitchen team, with Alessandro becoming another enduring figure in the restaurant's stewardship. Bin worked directly with the chef on new preparations, making continual development a defining characteristic as Heguì matured on Viale Marche. Japanese forms gradually absorbed ingredients reaching far beyond conventional sushi combinations, including foie gras, burrata, pistachio, saffron, truffle and red prawns from Mazara del Vallo. Dim sum developed along a parallel path through cuttlefish-ink dough wrapped around squid and separate dumplings pairing shrimp with cod, extending experimentation from the sushi counter into Chinese technique. The broader repertoire connected onigiri, sashimi and tataki with teppanyaki, steamed dumplings, wok preparations and dedicated Chinese dishes, allowing the kitchen to work across several cooking systems without reducing them to a single generalized Asian style. Corriere della Sera selected Heguì for its 2022 guide to Milan's strongest fixed-price sushi restaurants, highlighting the breadth running through dim sum, onigiri, uramaki and Chinese specialties. A later ownership transition began another chapter for Heguì Taste of Asia without displacing the culinary foundation developed during its preceding years. The restaurant's enduring contribution is the sustained experimentation established under Bin, particularly the movement of recognizable Japanese preparations toward ingredients deeply connected with Italian gastronomy.
Mazara roll makes that approach especially clear by placing tempura zucchini flowers beneath avocado, red prawns from Mazara del Vallo and burrata, bringing crisp batter, cool shellfish and creamy cheese into a single sushi composition. Burrata roll changes the sequence through shrimp tempura and avocado covered with seared salmon, burrata and pistachios, using temperature contrast to separate the warm crustacean and fish from the cooler cheese. Foie gras roll introduces another form of richness through salmon, avocado, seared salmon, foie gras and pistachio, and dedicated Heguì nigiri pairs seared salmon with foie gras, almonds and teriyaki. Cuttlefish-ink dim sum shifts the same experimental instinct into steamed dough filled with squid, setting the dark wrapper against the softer cephalopod filling. Heguì temaki combines black rice, cooked prawns, pistachio and rocket sauce inside a soy sheet, replacing familiar white rice and nori with darker grain and a distinctly Italian herb component. New Angel roll finishes seared salmon with saffron sauce over cooked prawn, avocado and cream cheese, carrying one of Milanese cooking's most recognizable spices into a Japanese format. Heguì Taste of Asia reaches its most individual territory through these precise crossings, retaining the structural logic of sushi and dim sum as Italian seafood, cheese, nuts and spices redirect their flavor and texture.
How to fold Heguì Taste of Asia into your trip.
Heguì Taste of Asia works as the dining endpoint for an afternoon tracing five centuries of residential experimentation across Maggiolina and the Villaggio dei Giornalisti.
Begin at Villa Mirabello, whose fifteenth-century transformation accelerated after Florentine banker Pigello Portinari acquired the property in 1455 during his tenure directing the Milanese branch of the Medici bank for Cosimo de' Medici. Michelozzo contributed to the complex, including the eastern portico, and the residence later passed to the Landriani; Ludovico il Moro stayed there with his entourage on February 4, 1500 during his attempt to recover Milan, connecting the former country retreat directly with the final struggle for Sforza power. Continue to Villa Figini, designed by Luigi Figini as his own home between 1933 and 1935, with Gino Pollini directing construction alongside him. Figini raised the principal volume above the ground and applied the principles of European Rationalism to a radically spare private residence; publication in Quadrante in 1935 and Domus in 1936 placed the small Villaggio dei Giornalisti house inside the architectural debate surrounding modern Italian domestic design. Conclude at Case Igloo, where engineer Mario Cavallè responded to Milan's postwar housing shortage in 1946 with twelve circular dwellings conceived as rapid accommodation for families displaced by wartime bombing. Each covered forty-five to fifty square meters beneath a domed structure of perforated bricks arranged in converging diamond patterns; eight survived after demolition threatened the group during the 1960s, when residents and Luigi Figini helped defend the houses. The progression moves from Portinari and Michelozzo's Renaissance country residence through Figini's Rationalist domestic experiment into Cavallè's rebellious response to postwar displacement, compressing five centuries of Milanese residential invention into the streets surrounding Heguì Taste of Asia.
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