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Podcast: Conversation with a chef
Episode: #174 Soichi Kawabata | Yakikami
Description: Japan-born Soichi Kawabata brings 26 years of traditional and hyper-focused knife-wielding skills to South Yarra's Yakikami in its Wagyu Omakase offering.
Growing up in Fukuako – a coastal city known for its seafood culture, Soichi spent his younger years on fishing trips with his father. Here, the pair would catch different types of fish and bring them back to the family to share, and create something special. To respect and identify quality produce was something he was taught on these trips, igniting Soichi’s love affair with cooking and confirming his destiny lay within the walls of a kitchen.
Soichi began his profes...