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How Polyglot Can You Get?

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Sep 14, 2007
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An unlikely combination comes together for Hong Kong’s latest celebrity restaurant

It might seem an unlikely recipe for success: an izakaya-style, or informal Japanese restaurant started in London by a German restaurateur who got his start learning about Japanese cuisine when he was the executive chef of a French restaurant in Tokyo.

But Rainer Becker, th…

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