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SACHIE NOMURA Sachie Nomura is one of New Zealand’s most experienced Asian cuisine chefs. She runs a cooking school in Parnell, Auckland.
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Where does your culinary inspiration come from?
touch, taste and smell local food all helped to inspire my creative juices.
My inspiration comes from Japan – my aunty was a big foodie. I learnt from her and my mum and had the luxury of being able to forage fresh vegetables, wild mushrooms and ingredients and be able to bring them back to the house to cook. Travelling overseas regularly to
What is your all-time favourite meal to eat? That’s a very hard question to answer! But I love a beautiful tempura with ingredients that I have found myself and cooked at the table.