Miya's Sushi
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""For sheer gutsy inventiveness, nothing I've eaten this year beats New Haven's Miya...when the young chef is at the stove, it is sublime and it is a joy to be in the presence of such an original mind." - The New York Times. "
Male
100 years old
New Haven, Connecticut
United States
Last Login:
7/6/2008
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| General | My favorite thing to do when I was a kid was to create a new world out of crayon, clay or just about anything I could get my hands on. Not much has changed, except my medium these days is food and my technique is cooking. With my cooking I always strive to nourish the body, the mind and the soul. Yesterday, I read a beautiful memoir called "The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moehringer, about a bar and it's regulars that take care of a lost, fatherless child. I couldn't help but think that this is what we do for eachother at Miya. Not that we are lost or fatherless but that we have created a haven for people who care about eachother. You can't do anything great without CARE...it is the intangible thing that you can taste is missing in the food, even when all else is done perfectly. | | Music | My newest dish is called "Man Eating Clam" and I've integrated my spicy Firecracker Sake (which I brew from California rice, Chinese chili peppers, citrus fruit, American oak, sake and lots of waiting - while it matures 1 year) into the recipe. It is cherry stone clams on the half shell served with a fresh daikon salsa and firecracker sake sorbet. The sorbet works well because if we were to simply splash sake on the clam it would spill out and we would experience too little of the rich flavor. It is necessary for the sorbet to hold the flavors together in this recipe. It also adds a textural and tempurature component to the clam while releasing the complex firecracker sake flavors in layers as it melts. | | Movies | I was the Asian guy in a Carlsberg beer commercial that ran it's course in Asia. I went to Asia that year but nobody seem to notice that I was famous, except for me. | | Television | The television show “The Little Rascals” started my long relationship with artichokes. I didn’t grow up eating them, because Asians don’t eat them. On one of the episodes of the show, one of the characters peels open an artichoke, leaf by leaf, and is surprised to find an apple inside. Later, grocery shopping with my mother, I was excited to spot one and shamelessly begged for it. I didn’t just want it. I needed it. “Mom, trust meee, I know how to eat it!” I pleaded. My mother patiently watched as I confidently peeled it open. It happened to be a dud, no sign of even a crab apple inside, closely inspected. At Miya’s I have prepared thousands of pounds of artichokes and wouldn’t be too surprised if one day I do find an apple inside. | | Books | My parents come from two very different cultures (Hong Kong and Japan) and they have very different family histories. They have an amazing tale to tell so I am presently working on a book about them for my future children's children's children. I will also make a book of recipes because both of my parents are amazing cooks. | | Heroes | My mom, dad, Mie and Iceman King Tornado; my grandparents; Meredith, Mary Margaret and Dick; Dylan Bruno et al; Patricia and Levi Miranda; David Graeber; Jay Lender; a zillion other great people including the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four for his unique Bar B Queing technique; Moses, Jesus, Allah, Buddah, Confucious and the Great Spirit of any religion. |
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Miya's Sushi's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Occupation: | family, friends, sushi and sake |
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Miya's Sushi/Bun Lai
68 Howe Street, New Haven, CT, 06511 US
(203) 777-9760
Open for lunch and dinner everyday except for Sunday and Monday
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