Oiishi restaurant flew the flag for Lanarkshire at The Golden Chopsticks Awards 2022 touchdown the celebrated 'Finest in Scotland' title.
The exemplary award-winning East Kilbride eaterie specialises in recent sushi and genuine Japanese delicacies impressed by conventional Japanese road meals.
Opened in October 2017, it has expanded the culinary selections and palate of many locals, and is frequented by meals lovers from Glasgow, Edinburgh and past.
Thanks to go chef Stephen Lau's workforce of specialists, the restaurant has been voted a number of instances as one of many prime 100 eating places in Scotland.
Commenting on their huge win, Oiishi posted on their Fb web page: "Now that the mud has settled on what was an especially memorable evening, we might similar to to say an enormous thanks to 2 crucial teams of people that made this occur - our sensational employees and our unimaginable, supportive buyer base.
"Finest Restaurant in Scotland 2022... nonetheless pinching ourselves!
"We actually could not have completed this with out you. You've got performed an enormous half within the success of not solely final evening, however our potential to proceed to develop by troublesome instances within the pandemic and present monetary state of affairs across the globe."
The Golden Chopsticks Awards winners have been introduced on Monday, September 26, at a glittering ceremony on the Marriott, Grosvenor Sq. in London's Mayfair, hosted by Gok Wan MBE.
The awards, co-founded by buddies Lucy Mitchell, Sarah Lewis and Gok in 2018, has grow to be one of many largest and most prestigious celebrations of East and South East Asian meals on the earth.
The judging panel included Head Decide Ken Hom CBE, Sunday Brunch presenter Simon Rimmer, Faculty of Wok’s Jeremy Pang, Eric Yu, founding father of The Breakfast Group, Sonny Leong CBE, Katy Tse Blair MBE and former Masterchef winner, Ping Coombes.
Lots of the chosen eating places have been voted for by members of the general public over a six-week interval, with greater than 33,000 votes registered.
Separate business prizes have been awarded by a judging panel which incorporates influential figures from the business.
A shock efficiency from Blue rounded off the night.
Gok Wan MBE, co-founder and host of the awards, mentioned: "After the wonderful success of our first three awards, we knew it was going to be a tall order to go larger and higher this yr, however we really feel we pulled it off!
"The Golden Chopsticks Awards has effectively and really cemented itself into the culinary. What a tremendous evening, bringing collectively the nice and the nice from the oriental meals world in a single room, with finalists masking the broad spectrum of E and SE Asian meals from Chinese language, Japanese and Thai to Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino and Korean.
"It was implausible to see so many achieved restaurateurs within the room, alongside the rising stars of the long run! It was an actual honour to host what's now one in all my favorite nights of the yr!"
Ken Hom, CBE, added: "I'm greater than delighted to be a part of the fourth Golden Chopsticks Awards which units the very best commonplace from which East and South East Asian eating places within the UK can all be judged. I congratulate all of the winners and finalists in addition to the judges for his or her exhausting work!"
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