Extra_Ordinary is Glasgow’s newest pan-Asian inspired restaurant

We speak to head chef Tobias who is behind Finnieston’s newest venture XO.

Transcript

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.