Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisais a celebrity chef and restaurateur known for his fusion cuisine blending traditional Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredients. His signature dish is black cod in miso...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth10 March 1949
CountryJapan
success
I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.
customers followed learned success sure
I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.
best enjoy musician people success whatever whether
I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.
aggressive
In Japan, I have my own line of dinnerware, but I'm not aggressive about pursuing those projects.
time
It's still my happiest time when I'm eating.
good jet
Eating a lot on the plane is not good for jet lag.
fell scar
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
beverly fit helps keeps large pool
Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.
buy closed oysters shell
Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.
movies rather stay
Cooking and film are completely different - but I'd rather stay in the kitchen than be in movies.
fish kitchen morning soup woke
Every morning when I woke up, my mother was already in the kitchen making breakfast. It was always the same: steamed rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish and miso soup. Each day there was something different in the soup such as tofu or potatoes.
cabbage chopped fish kitchen meat people serve work
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'
I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.
flight longer movies prefer short time watch
My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.