Sino-Japanese Cuisine

Hikoaki Tan, whose parents came from Guangdong Province in China, was born in Japans Yokohama Chinatown in 1943. He grew up in post-war Japan, where there was a severe food shortage.

[Hikoaki Tan, Cantonese Chef]:
During the post-war period, there was little food, especially for Chinese. Chinese people like me, born in Chinatown, didnt have a place in Japanese society, and so it was like I had to become a Chinese chef to survive.

Ever since he started cooking, chef Tan wanted to combine traditional Cantonese recipes with ingredients native to Japan.

[Hikoaki Tan, Cantonese Chef]:
Traditional Chinese dishes are simply great. Its such a pleasure for me to search for them, bringing them to Japan and to arrange them in a Japanese way. Since becoming a chef, my concept has always been to use only Japanese ingredients to make the best Chinese dishes.

Besides the exquisite taste, he hopes his customers feel his food is safe, a simple but important virtue in Japan where people tend to be delicate.

[Hikoaki Tan, Cantonese Chef]:
Not only does the food need to be delicious, but it also has to be safe. We tell our customers that the ingredients we use and our cooking techniques are all very safe.

Tan is the executive chef and owner of Akasaka Rikyu, one of Tokyos most exquisite restaurants. He sends his greetings and support for NTDs International Chinese Culinary Competition.

[Hikoaki Tan, Cantonese Chef]:
If there is chance, not only me, but also for the young chefs working here, we hope to show Japans culinary techniques in Chinese cuisine at NTDTVs competition. From my heart, I hope NTDTV hosts a successful competition.

I'm Liliana Yap, NTD, Tokyo, Japan.

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[Kulgera4]

Hey, isn't that one of the original Iron Chefs?

[papertiger7]

@oki81 Hey its better than CCTV...lol

[oki81]

NDTV... haha who trust bullshit from this channel anyways

[pclown]

safety is important to the japanese cause they don't trust the chinese or even chinese-like things in japan because of their inherent feeling of supremacy over the rest of asia. if china wasn't a totalitarian state i would totally work there instead of japan cause chinese food rocks japanese food any day of the week and twice on sunday!