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Location:

Los Angeles

Best meal I ever ate:

Fugu liver at Ginza Sushi-Ko the month it closed. Also, the ricotta cheesecake with strawberries at Del Posto in NYC, washed down with Bastianich vineyard "Vespa Rosso" was perfection squared.

My current drink of choice:

Sencha, alternated with Black Himalaya SFTGFOP1 from Mariage Freres

I really wish I could:

Cook home-cooked food every day rather than having to rely on the junk most restaurants serve. And eat my home-cooked food on exquisite Japanese pottery.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Hummus from Sunnin

My favorite comfort food:

Hummus - what could be more comforting? Or zhug when I want fiery comfort. Or a perfectly poached egg. Or a raw egg over steaming rice with bits of chopped up nori.

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Ginza Sushi-Ko (before it closed); TORIEI (Ikenohata, Tokyo - as much for the ambience as the food); Kai (NYC - because I can get decent tea); Kondo (Ginza, Tokyo)

My most tattered cookbooks:

Shizuo Tsuji - Japanese Cooking A Simple Art