What might seem like an unlikely cultural fusion is coming together beautifully between Madeline Island and Milwaukee.

Bryce Stevenson, the chef owner of Miijim on Madeline Island, and Jenny Lee of Kiuda MKE are together presenting a seven-course “Korea de Rez” dinner.

“Jenny originally got ahold of me. She wanted to come up and see what Miijim was up to and had offered to stage and help with peeling garlic and things like that,” Stevenson said. “But it’s such a trek to get to where we’re at that I really wanted there to be more focus and purpose to it.”

So he suggested a dinner collaboration. Lee says she “just wanted to hang out,” but it’s become something much bigger.

Ojibwe cuisine has a rice culture. And so does Korean food,” Lee said. “And so one of our dishes will be an elk rice bowl. And so in Korean, we call rice bowl like bibimbap. So it would be elk bibimbap. And we would marinate the elk, which is a typical protein of Ojibwe cuisine in soy sauce, water, garlic, ginger, but with maple syrup, not processed sugar.”

She’s also making her own gochujang red pepper paste sweetened with maple syrup. It’s fermenting now.

“In my mind, the concept or what we were trying to accomplish was to have Jenny come up and be able to cook her food but by using the ingredients that we use at Miijim, using indigenous ingredients,” Stevenson said. “We really want to highlight the flavors of our area but with the traditions and techniques of where Jenny’s heart and home is. And so we’re doing things using local lakefish, but we’re rubbing it in smoked kelp.”

Korea de Rez is at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Miijim on Madeline Island. Tickets are $125.