22/05/2025
With more than 35 years of experience working in Japan and at several two-Michelin-starred restaurants in Asia, Norihisa Maeda is currently the Executive Chef of Teppanyaki Shou.
To Chef Maeda, the concept of “art” goes beyond culinary. Outside of the kitchen, he is an expert in kintsugi—the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
Kintsugi resembles the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which embraces the flawed or imperfect. The beauty of kintsugi lies in highlighting cracks and repairs rather than allowing an object‘s service to end at the time of damage or breakage.