DISH It OUT

If you had Rs. 500, what meal would you make with it?

It has to be a cheese kottu. I wouldn’t necessarily make it, but would run out and grab one from one of my favourite places.

If you had to serve only one dish in your restaurant forever – what would it be?

RAMEN!! I do have various dishes at Misoya but the core will always will be Ramen.

What dish would you eat but never cook?

French pastry

What food trend do you hate right now?

Meatless meat.

It’s your last day on earth, where are you and what are you eating?

I’ll be in Tokyo Japan eating at 3 restaurants. My favourite sushi restaurant, favourite ramen restaurant and favourite miso katsu restaurant. Every time I go to Japan this is my usual drill the day before I come back to Sri Lanka.

The most exotic food you’ve eaten?

I’ve had quite a few, I think. But most adventurous would-be Horse Meat Sashimi. It has the texture of raw tuna with a gamey taste.

Your favourite odd food pairing?

Vanilla ice cream with cream crackers and kithul. One of my staff members gave this to me one day and I simply loved it.

If you could dis-invent a food, what would it be?

Chicken bacon. This is not bacon. It cannot be called bacon!!

Your proudest food invention?

I wouldn’t call it my inventions but a couple of my favourite dishes that I have on the Misoya Menu is the Buta no Kakuni which is a Japanese style braised pork belly and the Katsu Sando which is a Japanese sandwich.

What’s a dish you’d love to relive for the first time?

Wow there are so many I can’t pick just one. But I would say, I’d love to relive the first time I was in Japan travelling alone just wandering the streets trying out different restaurants and various dishes.