Duration

4 Hours

The tour group will meet at 9 AM on Sunday (or occasionally Saturday) when the market is quieter. The experience begins with a 30-minute guided tour of Marukai Market, followed by a visit to the Foodstory kitchen to continue the class. The cooking portion will start at 10 am. The meeting location in Little Tokyo, as well as our kitchen address, will be provided in your booking confirmation email.

About

Meet us in Little Tokyo where we’ll introduce you to over 100 Japanese food products at one prominent Japanese markets: Marukai/Tokyo Central. We will be thrilled to share our favorite seasonings, dried foods, frozen foods and fresh produce. You may never know what you’re missing until you try tasting some of these unique products. We will also point out cookware that’s useful for making Japanese cuisine.

Afterwards, we’ll head to our downtown kitchen where we’ll be preparing a number of simple dishes that require only 5 to 20 minutes of cooking. Our goal is to introduce a variety of flavors and textures in Japanese cooking in the simplest simple way. Due to our ambitious and varied menu, we may use pre-cut vegetables as well as pre-made sauces and packaged foods which we don't normally use at our regular cooking class. If you are looking to cook more often, our recipes will surely delight you.

Menu:

Main Dishes

1. Okonomiyaki (savory vegetable filled pancake using “Otafuku” sauce and flour)
2. Sukiyaki beef (konnyaku noodle, sukiyaki sauce, enoki mushroom)
3. Oyako-don (using tsuyu sauce)
4. Grilled Chicken with citrus pepper (Yuzu Kosho)
5. Gyoza (Pot sticker)

Salads, Sides and Appetizers

6. Soba Salad (using “Tsuyu” noodle dipping sauce)
7. Tofu Salad with Ume sauce (versatile pickled sour plum dressing)
8. Blanched vegetables with ponzu & mayonnaise sauce
9. Salt & Pepper mountain potato or Lotus roots
   10.Dried daikon radish salad with Pietro dressing (kiriboshi daikon & pietro dressing)

Dessert
11.Dessert: Shiratama mochi with dark chocolate (Shiratama flour)