CHOW LISTS

Sam Fujisaka

Best meal I ever ate:

What my mother and aunts prepared for a holiday feast--without knowing I would be asked about this later.

My current drink of choice:

Concha y Toro reds--weaning myself from the hard stuff.

I really wish I could:

pilot an AT6 Texan in the Nevada air races.

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

Anything I'm asked to bring.

My favorite comfort food:

oyaku donburi or musubi with ume boshi inside

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Various road- and street-food joints, mostly in south and SE Asia.

My most tattered cookbooks:

I don't use cookbooks, but do have to consult "Paul Bocuse's French Cooking" quite a bit even though I won't admit it and even though I am not that big of a fan of the French.