Korean Chef of the Chinese restaurant in Beppu, Japan
By BoRo Dolgorjav (The Fountain staff)
December 5, 2018
“When I was a child I was feeling myself as a nothing”.
Kanemoto Eiseki was in elementary school in Japan when he was
bullied for the first time because he is a Korean. “For a Japanese, I’m a
Korean but for Korea, I’m a traitor,” he said.
Eiseki is 61 years old, working as a Chinese food chef in the
buffet restaurant in the Kamenoi Hotel since 2007. He’s been cooking Chinese
food for 43 years that he knew food makes people happy.
Kanemoto loves to spend time with APU students to support them and
to teach something that he couldn’t do.
“Believing in yourself leads to your success, it doesn’t matter
where you are from,” he said.
He grew up in Fukuoka with any plans for the future when he was a
child. He said, “Korean people who live in Japan have no choice and motivation
for their future”.
His teacher recommended working in a Chinese restaurant when he
was in high school, he decided to work in a Chinese restaurant after graduating
high school.
He spent six years in Rokumeishun Chinese restaurant in Saga
prefecture, washing pot for three years. “I have learned everything about the
life in Rokumeishun, ” he said. “I didn’t know anything about the world. I
learned good things even bad things there,”.
“When I started cooking, one of the best enjoyment was hearing
compliments from my customers,” Kanemoto said.
He wanted to cook to share the happiness with his customers and he
went to work in Central Hotel in Fukuoka to learn how to cook professionally
from Chin, a famous Chinese food chef in Fukuoka.
He succeeded more than he imagined and now he has everything that
he wants.
“My last 43 years was very hard but I was too coward to try new
things,” he said.
Now his dream is being healthy with his family. He likes to climb
a mountain with his friend Baniya a 3rd-year student of APU. He’s climbing a
mountain and traveling at least 3 times a month.
“Although I didn’t have any talent, I met lots of good people who
were always supporting me”. But the problem in his life is a distinct people
and he knows there are many types of people in the world. “People will jealous
of you, they want to destroy your success, even your friend,” he said.
I was really impressed that kanemotosan think APU students as a freiends not a employee.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think I am not good person he thought he was not multi-talented person. So I could get motivation to find the difference from others from this article.
ReplyDeleteI decided to obey my heart's vice what I want to do like him.
ReplyDeleteI like Chinese food so I am searching Chinese food restaurant in Beppu. I want to eat his Chinese food.
he is working in Bold restaurant in Kamenoi hotel
DeleteThank you for profiling someone in the community. It's so interesting to read about people I would probably never meet otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHe inspired me. Cool!
ReplyDeletethanks for this great topic. I became to wanna eat Chinese foods.
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