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I really love the place where my husband and children are. So where I end my life is Japan.

2010-12-08

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Satomi Nagakubo Iranian cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since ’90) What kind of image of Iran do you have? This project “MET × Niki’s Kitchen” was inspired by a woman whom we are introducing you to. Satomi Nagakubo, an Iranian woman. She has a Japanese name because it makes her life easy here. She speaks softly but laughs and smiles quite a bit when she feels happy. We joined her class for the first time in November, 2010. When we put the food which she made into our mouths,

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I feel like my students are my daughters when I see them enjoying dishes that I cooked.

2010-11-24

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Sohon Se (Taiwan) Taiwanese-Chinese cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since ’97) My Eyes Tokyo brings you interviews with teachers from “Niki’s Kitchen“. It’s a cooking school in which foreigners teach their homeland dishes to Japanese people. The 2nd interviewee is Sohon Se from Taiwan. She holds cooking classes three or four times a month at her home in a quiet residential area. As soon as the info about her class is uploaded onto Niki’s homepage, it’s booked up. She analyzes the reason for it; “Our food culture is close to

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Indian cuisine possesses much potential. So I cannot understand why some people don’t want to teach how to cook it.

2010-11-21

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Savari Muthu (India) Indian cuisine chef/instructor (He’s been in Japan since ’94) My Eyes Tokyo brings you interviews with teachers of “Niki’s Kitchen“. It’s a cooking school in which foreigners teach their homeland dishes to Japanese people. The 1st interviewee is Savari Muthu, a managing chef of an Indian restaurant chain called “Muthu“. He owns three restaurants in Tokyo and Chiba. He says on Niki’s homepage; “You may associate India with Hinduism, but I’m a Christian. Therefore I can cook anything including beef, pork and chicken.” We got interested in a Christian

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There are many kinds of gaps in the world. Bridging them, that’s my assignment.

2010-08-08

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Naoko Tanase Cooking school representative Today’s interviewee is a Japanese woman who manages a school called ”Niki’s Kitchen”, which operates cooking classes in Tokyo and the suburbs. Its cooking classes are very unique. Firstly, you can learn ”home-style dishes” of different countries from foreign cooks. Secondly, each class is held at a cook’s house. And lastly, you can learn whatever and whenever you want because it’s not membership-based. Those are the most distinctive features of Niki’s Kitchen. I got interested in its concept, “Learning various home-style dishes at foreign cooks’