Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Masa Takayama

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese chef Masa Takayama.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Masa Takayama

Masayoshi "Masa" Takayama is a Japanese chef and restauranteur. He is the owner of Masa, a three-Michelin-starred Japanese and sushi restaurant in Manhattan, New York City. He is also owner of Bar Masa, with two locations: one adjacent to his New York City restaurant, and one in the Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

I want to know what my food has been eating.
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid. — © Masa Takayama
I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.
I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.
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.
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
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?
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