â€I also worked as a simultaneous translator for the Mexican Railroad Union so I would go into really intense meetings when I was like 20 years old, translating simultaneously between two people.
â€I'm just nabbing the memories while I can.“The second that I tasted my first bite at Otoko,.‒s restaurant in Austin, I knew that I was looking at a Best New Chef.”.
â€Strong words from.‒s Restaurant Editor Jordana Rothman, describing one of the most inventive and irreverent omakase spots in the country today.. Okai, who hails from Kyoto, is what.â€Editor in Chief Nilou Motamed describes as a “rock and roll sushi chef.” He’s a punk musician—and Austin, his longtime adopted city, is the perfect place for him to flex his musical muscles after restaurant hours.. For Okai, these dual passions have always been intertwined.
â€He started cooking professionally, drawing on his experience back in Japan working for a family catering company after the breakup of an erstwhile punk project many years ago.–I came to realize that cooking is very similar to music,” he says.
–And since my music career didn’t really take off, I decided to pour the same passion for music into cooking and becoming a chef.”.
â€Okai’s food is refined and thoughtful, but like his music, it’s anything but quiet.â€When cooked with sugar and coconut milk, sticky rice makes a sweet and chewy dessert served with fresh mango and lightly salted condensed milk.
â€And mochi — along with many chewy desserts across Asia — are made from sticky rice that's ground into a fine flour.. What Is Mochi?â€(And How Do You Make It?).
â€Black sticky rice.â€is a whole-grain version that retains its purple bran layer.
(Editor: Wireless Kettles)