Chef Takashi Miyazaki has a Cork accent.
It's a hard accent to pin down, but 'de Cork' accent sounds somewhere between the lilt of the Caribbean Islands and being happily constipated. It's not the only thing Miyazaki has picked up since opening his bijou Japanese restaurant in Ireland's second city in 2015.
Miyazaki's eponymous restaurant — a takeout with space for a few stools — has twice been included in Ireland's list of best 100 restaurants and Miyazaki has also been voted best chef in Cork. Critics and patrons have been making pilgrimages and novelist David Mitchell, who also lives in Cork, described Miyazaki's cooking as the "best street food I've had inside and outside Japan. It's sushi, bentos, noodles, ramen and more. It's just no frills, beautiful, exquisitely prepared, pure and great tasting."