Do you prefer Japanese cuisine to Chinese cuisine like Marchesi?
PL: They are very different — one from the other. Japanese cuisine is basic and straightforward. Instead, Chinese cuisine is very elaborate, more complex. Chinese cuisine can be extraordinarily refined. In all fairness, I must say, however, that when I lived in the Orient, the level of cuisine in Japan was much higher than in China because China was still governed by the Communist regime, so its cuisine was still under-developed. Instead, now it’s undergoing an extraordinary boom; there are restaurants in Shanghai to-die-for. The Chinese have reached the same high quality as the Japanese in their top restaurants.
