Table Talk: Jeremy Chan
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On the podcast, he tells Liv and Lara about growing up with a number of different food influences – from Hong Kong to Canada – and why his two-Michelin-starred restaurant should never be pigeonholed.
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| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators' Food and Drink podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Olivia Potts. |
| 0:27.3 | And I'm Laura Prendergast. |
| 0:28.4 | And today we are delighted to be joined by Jeremy Chan. |
| 0:31.1 | Jeremy heads up the two Michelin-starred London restaurant, Ikoi, which last year was ranked |
| 0:35.7 | number 42 in the world's best restaurants. He is also the author of a cookbook of the same name, Akoii, which last year was ranked number 42 in the world's best restaurants. |
| 0:38.3 | He is also the author of a cookbook of the same name, Akoi, which is published by |
| 0:42.2 | Fiden and available now. Jeremy, welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:46.5 | Jeremy, we always start at the beginning with a question about your earliest memories of food. |
| 0:51.4 | What are yours? |
| 0:52.2 | I grew up in Hong Kong, the first eight years of my life, so I think my earliest memories of food. What are yours? I grew up in Hong Kong, first eight years of my life, |
| 0:55.2 | so I think my earliest memories of food are being with family, being with my parents, my sister, |
| 1:02.4 | and a lot of friends sitting around a really big round dim sum table in Hong Kong with many dishes, |
| 1:10.7 | many plates, many tastes, a loud, busy, |
| 1:13.9 | bustling restaurant. I think there's a strong memory for me because it was the only time in my |
| 1:17.7 | life when I had my whole family around me and I think it's something I long for deeply. |
| 1:23.7 | Since I moved away from Hong Kong, moved to the UK when I was nine, eight. |
| 1:29.3 | My family is sort of more spread out. And today, there are still four of us, but we all live in different parts of the world. |
| 1:36.3 | So I think food, my first food memory is very much tied into that longing of being with, you know, an extended family and having that sense of togetherness. |
| 1:46.5 | And what about home cooking when you were growing up? Was that something that happened a lot at home for you? |
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