NEXT STOP , HONG KONG
You may not believe that omelettes and hamburger steaks are the two defining dishes of one of the top sushi masters in the world, but they are for Mitsuhiro Araki—the 53-year-old veteran chef who has just opened The Araki in House 1881 after a wildly successful five years in London.
Growing up in the Kyushu countryside in southern Japan, the young Araki was exposed to these western dishes—or, rather, the Japanese take on them—by his grandfather, a chef whose deft hand in the kitchen taught Araki all about the flavours of foreign lands. While opportunities to
