New York is my, you know, second hometown.

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator—it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

Cook more often. Don't study; just cook.

I dont eat anything on an airplane.