Grace Choy¡¯s kitchen is very small ¡ª about the size you¡¯d expect in a studio apartment.
There¡¯s enough room for Choy to walk the two or three steps from fridge to stovetop, but not much else. A humble array of premium Le Creuset cookware and high quality ovens accent the cooking area and dining room, but this is no industrial kitchen built to house a cadre of line cooks.
The layperson strolling through the backstreets of the Aobadai neighborhood of Meguro Ward might take a look through ChoyChoy Kitchen¡¯s floor-to-ceiling window and consider it all yet another serviceable entry among Tokyo¡¯s innumerable eateries. That would be a grave mistake ¡ª not only for the meal you¡¯re robbing yourself of but also for the story you¡¯re missing out on.
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