We speak to head chef Tobias who is behind Finnieston’s newest venture XO.
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00:00My name is Tobias Fiegel. I'm from Sydney, Australia.
00:04I've been in Scotland seven, seven and a half years now.
00:08I decided that it'd be cool to travel and live around this country.
00:11So I think I moved to the Isle of Skye originally.
00:14I was living in Denmark for a while.
00:16Moved to the Isle of Skye.
00:18Gorgeous.
00:20It is the pinnacle of just naturalistic beauty
00:25and just being there and surrounded by it.
00:28Absolutely gorgeous.
00:29From Isle of Skye, I moved to Edinburgh.
00:32I worked in Edinburgh for a couple of years and then moved to Aberdeen
00:35and later to Glasgow, where I still am.
00:38There's something about this city. I like this city.
00:40We're at Extraordinary.
00:42XO for short.
00:44And because we're sometimes using that as a name,
00:48definitely have to have XO on the menu.
00:50So homemade XO on a couple of the courses here.
00:53A bit of a fun take on Northeast Asian cooking.
00:58Northeast Asia, you're thinking Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan.
01:05This part of the world.
01:07And it's just the ingredients there, what they do.
01:14It's very accessible, tasty food.
01:18And that's what we're doing here.
01:19Tasty food.
01:20Some of the dishes cross over.
01:21A bit of Chinese and Japanese influences on the same dish.
01:26And there's a platform to showcase food that I just like eating.
01:31I mean, yeah, let's make it pretty and let's present it in a nice way.
01:35But it's just food that I want to eat.
01:37Food that I enjoy cooking and making.
01:40And it makes the days in a kitchen, which are quite long, very manageable.