How This Tempura Restaurant Became the Only One to Land a Michelin Star

By focusing on details, this Hokkaido native moved to New York and made it happen

Kaki Okumura
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7 min readOct 26, 2020

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Kiyoshi Chikano is executive chef of the first and only Michelin-starred tempura restaurant in the U.S., Tempura Matsui. In our interview, I assumed Chikano-san was in his 30s, for he looks quite young and…

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Kaki Okumura
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Born in Dallas, raised in New York and Tokyo. I care about helping others learn to live a better, healthier life. My site: www.kakikata.space 🌱