TANBA Restaurant, Malaysia
Historical settings dictate that Japanese yakiniku was traditionally consumed outside with an open fire, a heartening comfort cutting through the cooler air. Though the modern experience has been relegated to restaurant-based dining, the communal & interactive nature of yakiniku dining remains ever the same and its popularity has extended itself even to the tropics of Malaysia where this project is set in.
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If scent is a memory built on past experiences, how can we instil the comforting feelings of eating yakiniku traditionally to the Malaysian gastronomic scene through sight and smell alone? The aspiration was then to derive the feeling of consuming yakiniku together within an autumnal setting, modernising the traditional experience and cosy mood of an open campfire into the interior spaces of the TANBA restaurant.
