Gourmet Traveller

EATING WITH Takashi Murakami

What did you enjoy eating when you were growing up in Tokyo? My mum’s curry rice. I had no time to go out to restaurants because our family was really poor.

When I’m hungry, my brain is very creative. When I eat everything, I just get sleepy.

When he sold my statue, he invited me to dinner. We went to a small Italian restaurant downtown and I had almost no way to communicate in English. But he said, very kindly, “Thank you, Takashi, we’re making money. Until now, I could not

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