Masa Takayama quotes:

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

I want to know what my food has been eating.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants "¦ mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. "¦ In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?