Cooking up new career

IS this Tasmania’s smartest restaurateur?

Mowbray man Kevin Liang, who moved to Tasmania in 2020 to obtain a Master of Information Technology Systems from UTAS, after earlier achieving a Bachelor of Accounting in Melbourne, has just opened One Restaurant at 369-371 Invermay Rd.

“What I studied is totally different to what I’m doing now, but that’s life,” Mr Liang said of his new Chinese restaurant.

Mr Liang said he discovered his passion for cooking while working part-time at Wang’s Restaurant on George St while supporting himself through his master’s degree.

“I learnt cooking not through any formal course, but from experience at my last restaurant,” he said.

“I like food, I want to make some different food for different people, it’s very simple.” Mr Liang said he is proudest of his sweet and sour pork, beef and black bean sauce, and satay skewers.

The key to delicious Chinese cooking? It’s all in the sauce, he said.

“I make a small part of the sauce, try to see how it goes, and if the taste and feeling is feeling good, then I keep doing that,” Mr Liang said.

He said business has been predominantly takeaway thus far, but he is hoping as the business becomes more well known, the dine-in patrons will start to queue.

Mr Liang said he did most of the fit-out and business development himself, but occasionally enlisted the help of friends for the grunt work, wok frying up a feed for them by way of thanks.

The site of One Restaurant was previously Dave’s Noodles, which relocated earlier this year to a smaller tenancy on the opposite side of Invermay Rd.