My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

- Masa Takayama

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I want to know what my food has been eating.

- Masa Takayama

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My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

- Masa Takayama

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I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

- Masa Takayama

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In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

- Masa Takayama

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Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

- Masa Takayama

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I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

- Masa Takayama

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