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Matsuri at The Maritime Hotel to Celebrate 'Penis Festival' on April Fool's Day

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March 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

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The Matsuri restaurant inside The Maritime Hotel has crafted a special menu around the annual Japanese springtime celebration of fertility, The Penis Festival. The festival is a legit thing, having started originally with prostitutes praying to a small penis-venerating shrine for protection against STDS.

Today, The Penis Festival takes over the streets of Kawasaki during the first week of April where the crowds gather to see "phallic see-saws, penis carving contests, and edible sweetmeat manhood replicas all in the name of fertility or or 'Kanamara Matsuri.'

To partake in the Penis Festival stateside, the Matsuri restaurant will serve up a special menu created by Chef Tadashi Ono. Here's what he's erected in honor of the penis.

· Ginseng Up Cocktail: ($12)
· Get It Up Hot Pot: ($23) a traditional Japanese Hot Pot of oyster and sea urchin in dashi broth
· Big Sausage: ($18) served with sea scallops and spicy cod roe
· Hard Banana Cream Pie: ($9) caramelized with chocolate ice cream

The menu will be available only on April 1. Yes, we know that is April Fool's Day but the hotel's reps have assured us that everything is for real--from the penis festival to the menu offerings. The event will also be sponsored by Planned Parenthood, who is giving out free Jeremy Scott condoms.

And don't forget to pick up one of the sexy matchbooks on your way out!

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