Chef Tamaki Nakatani
Chef Tamaki was born in Osaka in Japan. She has always had a passion for food. After a Bachelors degree in Agriculture and a few years of working at a Japanese company, she decided to become a chef in Australia. So in 2009, she came to Melbourne for studying commercial cookery at William Angliss Institute of TAFE and got a chef qualification.
Since then she has worked for a number of Melbourne’s well known restaurants including her current workplace, Ocha Japanese Restaurant.
Tamaki’s passion is introducing people to the foods and cultures as well as to the joy of cooking. She's now happy to share her knowledge and her love for the foods with other foodie people at Otao kitchen.
Other chefs
Founder and Chef Ha Nguyen
Ha Nguyen is a passionate and talented chef, restaurateur and food consultant with an amazing ability to engage and motivate audience. Ha brings a wealth of international experience, with many years of French and Asian cooking. Chef Hà began his career in Hanoi local restaurants and the Hilton Opera Hotel before travel, study and work in Wellington, New Zealand – New...
Chef Dylan Vickers
Dylan’s love affair with cooking began as a kid in his grandmother’s kitchen. Slurping noodles and day dreaming about sushi and dumplings, his itching for good food thrust him into the restaurant industry straight out of highschool. He picked up a few tricks along the way working under the umbrella of David Chang at Momofuku Toronto, worked as Sous at acclaimed Skippa restaurant...
Chef Anan Phonyothan
With many years’ experience garnered in kitchens in Bangkok and Melbourne, Anan Phonyothan began her cooking apprentice as a young cook in Bangkok, watching her mother and grandmother in the kitchen. Since her childhood spent growing up in Northern Thailand, Chef Anan Phonyothan has come a long way – to her current role as Chef Instructor at Otao kitchen cooking schoolI.