Posted on 05/16/2013 11:39:20 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Top Japanese chef Miki Nozawa has died after apparently being attacked by two German men who were unhappy with the fried noodles from his restaurant on the North Sea island of Sylt.
The men, aged 36 and 50 are thought to have beaten 57-year-old Nozawa to death outside a strip club on the upmarket holiday island, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday.
Earlier in the evening the pair had eaten Nozawa's beef, vegetable and fried noodle dish, which they disliked and refused to pay for. They left his restaurant and headed to a nearby strip club, where they bumped into the chef.
Nozawa recognized them and insisted both give him €10 – a request that was not met well and as the argument escalated the trio went outside. It was allegedly there that the two handymen beat the chef so badly he had to be taken to hospital.
He died on Tuesday as a result of his injuries, Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt, state prosecutor from the nearby city of Flensburg, confirmed. She would not say whether reports that the men beat him until his entire left side was, as the Bild newspaper said, “one big purple bruise,” were true.
She did say that they were likely both drunk, and that they were yet to be tracked down by police.
Nozawa was an internationally renowned chef, famed for his Italian-Japanese fusion cuisine, which he has cooked for Michael Gorbachev, Denzel Washington and Phil Collins, among others.
Before he opened a low-key Asian restaurant on Sylt, a popular upmarket German holiday destination, he worked at Flavio Briatores “Billionaire” restaurant on Sardinia.
Talk about a food critic or two, geez...
German food critics? Who knew?
On “Chopped”, these things are handled more sensitively.
Lovely. RIP.
Sounds like underworld (mob) activity.
He shouldn’t have mentioned “The War”.
Just a couple of sour krauts.
Sylt is famous for nude beaches. Never been there myself.
nothing good happens at a strip club
Sweet genius!!
But but but we were arries during the war, hai?
Is One of the perps blonde?........
If they have nude beaches, why do they need strip clubs?......
I hear that in heaven, the engineers are German, the cooks are French, and the cops are English. In hell, the cooks are English, the engineers French, and the cops German!
Actually, I’ve had some excellent German food. Never lived there or eaten it as a steady diet, but what I had home cooked or in restaurants was very good.
I vas here by ze phone all nicht.
I read on another site that the suspects were released for lack of evidence. Their names have also not been disclosed—could they be good German names like al-Salal, Ertegun, or Okechukwu?
Excellent point! But if you’ve ever been to a nude beach (and I have), you’ll see that they are generally populated by old fat men. :(
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