The king of takeaway

The current global crisis has made what was once unthinkable a sensible affair. And in the realm of gastronomy this also brings a momentous milestone.

For centuries, kaiseki has been held at the pinnacle of Japanese haute cuisine. It’s a super-refined multicourse meal that comprises a variety of dishes including seasonal appetisers, soup, assorted sashimi and sushi, deep-fried, steamed and flame-grilled items, a vegetable, meat dish and rice dish and dessert.

A kaiseki meal is not only aesthetic and sophisticated, it’s also sequential and engaging.

Kinu by Takagi, the Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok’s first ever Japanese restaurant, opened in November 2019, offering diners in Bangkok a Kyoto-style kaiseki cuisine.

A brainchild of two Michelin-starred kaiseki master chef Takagi Kazuo from Japan’s Ashiya city, the…