Alan King Quotes

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

I'm a huge fan of Asian cooking in general. I love shabu shabu, and I love hibachi. It's kind of like an experience as opposed to just having something in front of you and you eating it.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan.

If you were to ask me what I couldn't do without, it would be sashimi.

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

Sushi is one of my favorite foods.

I could probably eat sushi every day.

I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.

Forget sushi, yakitori and tempura, ramen is what really gets the Japanese excited.

I'm a big sushi fan.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn't very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It's both tasty and healthy.

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

Sushi is my favorite thing to do in L.A.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.