Australian Gourmet Traveller - (09)September 2020 (1)

New wave

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ON THE PASS

with PAUL CARMICHAEL. MOMOFUKU SEIŌBO

After a few months off, what are you most excited about being back

in the kitchen? Just to be back at work and with my crew. For me, it

wasn’t the easiest thing to be in an apartment, all the time. I just missed

human interaction in the kitchen, and different ideas and different

points of view. I missed teaching and being taught. Humans are innately

social. We’re not solitary creatures like the Bengal tiger or something,

so to just be working together again is the most exciting thing.

How have you changed things up upon your return? As far as the

ethos of our restaurant, it’s the same but structurally, it’s definitely

different. It’s not so much a tasting menu anymore. We have basically

broken it down into seven courses or seven drops. But the first course,

or first drop is about seven dishes.

Seven-in-one!What’sthatgoingtolooklike?We’recallingit The

WelcomePlatter.It’s 90 percentliveseafood.Thesedayswe’repretty

certainonnumberssowe’repullingalmosteverythinglivefromtanks,

includingoysters,pippies,andspannercrab.

Whatelsecandinerslookforwardto?Everything’snew.A lotofdishes

focusontheNorthernCaribbean,soJamaica,HaitiandPuertoRico,

anda littlebitofBarbados.BecauseI can’tnotputBarbadosinthere!

I alwaysliketohavea ricedishonthemenubecauseit’sa hugepart

oftheCaribbeandiet.There’salsoa riffona dishfromHaiti;a beef

pattyfromJamaica;andthere’sa crisp-skinnedporkchop.

MomofukuSeiōbohasreopened,WednesdaythroughSaturday,

withtwoseatingsat5.45pmand8.30pm.seiobo.momofuku.com

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PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREW FINLAYSON (PAUL CARMICHAEL).