My Month of Salmon It sounds like a dream job and it was. Fifteen finalists competing to find the best Ōra King Salmon chefs in New Zealand and I had the enviable task of flying about the country to sample eight of these extraordinary dishes. Seven flights, four nights away from home and…[Read more]
“Memories Shared” Series: Makoto Tokuyama
I was born and raised in a temple in the countryside of Saga in Kyushu, Japan, and I lived there until I left at the age of 18 to go to University. Because I lived in the country, we would often play outside. We would go fishing, climbing trees, and catching insects. And for our snacks, we pulled the fruits…[Read more]
Video – How to make Ōra King salmon sashimi
Watch ‘how to make Ōra King salmon sashimi’ with Makoto Tokuyama of Auckland’s Cocoro here… To accompany the video here is a step by step guide from Makoto: Sashimi is already widely understood as slices of raw fish meat. In the word ‘sashimi’, ‘mi’ means meat, but ‘sashi’ actually means ‘poke’ in English, not ‘slice’ or…[Read more]