YUICHI Kamimura, founder of Niseko's famed Kamimura restaurant, has been invited to Hong Kong to work as a guest chef at the Aberdeen Marina Club in Hong Kong from November 15-22.

The Marina Club is owned by the Shangri-La Group and is among the most prestigious private clubs in Hong Kong.

Kamimura restaurant

MOST visitors returning to Niseko each winter have more on their minds than just snow. Great food also looms large as a drawcard for those in the know - and those in the know have always made a beeline for Kame, the Hidden Kitchen. Tucked away behind NAC on the fringes of the upper village, it often took a while to find, and with only limited seating,

Anywhere outside Japan these days, mention the word Hokkaido, and images of powder snow immediately leap to mind.Mention Hokkaido to a Japanese, however, and the image has always been of food. Particularly seafood and dairy products.

But just as the ski scene is undergoing a revolution in Hokkaido, so too the local food industry