{"id":1023,"date":"2021-06-17T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:38:20","slug":"online-interview-with-a-japanese-pastry-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/2021\/06\/17\/online-interview-with-a-japanese-pastry-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Online-interview with a Japanese pastry chef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To get some more interview practice in Japanese, we invited another Japanese food entrepreneur for an online interview. Shin is a pastry chef and in 2016, founded a caf\u00e9 in Berlin. He sells Japanese-French fusion cakes and tartlets, matcha latte and, during the summer, matcha ice. During the interview, students asked about his caf\u00e9, his products and work and about his impression of Berlin\u2019s Japanese foodscapes. In the end, we also inquired about his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-17.png 583w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-17-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-17-500x212.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The interview went smooth due to students\u2019 great questions and Shin\u2019s willingness to share insights about his life in Berlin and his work. Although the pandemic had a negative impact on his business, he also enjoyed some time for himself due to a reduced workload. He said it was no problem to switch to takeout service, because cake can be taken home easily. He didn\u2019t only receive financial support from the federal government and from Berlin\u2019s federal state government, but his regular customers stopped by during the pandemic and bought cake to support him as well. While it was rough at times, he wanted to keep his caf\u00e9 open for his customers. In November 2020, there were only very few customers coming on weekdays, so he decided to only open on weekends. With the relaxed Covid restrictions, customers slowly return for enjoying matcha latte and cake at the caf\u00e9\u2019s terrace. Instead of meeting Shin online, next time, we\u2019ll go there and have some of his delicious cake ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-18.png 609w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-18-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/files\/2021\/06\/image-18-500x235.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>Pastries and sweets from Shin&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 (Copyright \u00a9 Shin Komine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get some more interview practice in Japanese, we invited another Japanese food entrepreneur for an online interview. Shin is a pastry chef and in 2016, founded a caf\u00e9 in Berlin. He sells Japanese-French fusion cakes and tartlets, matcha latte &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/2021\/06\/17\/online-interview-with-a-japanese-pastry-chef\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/forschungswerkstatt-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}