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Food review: Taiga Dining pays homage to the landscape and produce of chef Taiga Kanekuni’s hometown in Kochi Prefecture

Jasmine AliminThu, Feb 10, 2022 • 03:16 PM GMT+08 • 5 min read

Meet Taiga Kanekuni, the strapping sushi chef fronting his eponymous 11-seater sushi-ya at Regent Singapore. If Oxley Holdings' executive director Shawn Ching, who has zero background in F&B, is willing to invest in this skilled shokunin and even name the restaurant after him, he must be worth his weight in sushi!

Trained for over 20 years in the fine art of centuries-old edomae or Edo-style sushi, Kanekuni earned his stripes in Niigata and Tokyo before venturing to Singapore to work at omakase restaurants, Sushi Ayumu and Sushi Kou.

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