Japanese Home Cooking Survival Series in Tokyo, Jan-Apr 2021
Join Mayuko for an intensive Japanese home cooking boot camp in Tokyo, using traditional Japanese ingredients that are unknown by tourists. (Winner of Eat! Meet! Japan 2020.)
Highlights
Join Mayuko, a fun and friendly cooking teacher in Tokyo for a Japanese home cooking bootcamp
Cook traditional Japanese dishes like a local
Learn how to use 20 hardcore ingredients
Take home recipes that you can replicate in your own kitchen!
10 meals
Experience Details
The teacher for this intensive Japanese home cooking course is Mayuko, who has been hosting Japanese cooking classes since January 2015. Since then, she has taught over 3,000 guests and been selected as a winner of Eat! Meet! Japan 2020, an award given to the top 15 Japanese food experiences nationwide by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.
Mayuko created this special series of cooking classes in order to teach expats in Tokyo the Japanese home cooking “survival” skills necessary to dive into the Japanese supermarket (and kitchen) with confidence. During this cooking class, you will learn how to use very traditional Japanese ingredients and techniques which are unknown to the average tourist in Japan.
Mayuko has known many foreign expats in Japan who never got the chance to cook authentic Japanese food using traditional ingredients. She always regretted that she didn’t have the chance to teach them how to use those ingredients.
While Japan is known for sushi and ramen, these foods cannot represent the entirety of Japanese cuisine. There is a wide variety of ingredients from daikon radish to shijimi clams to dried hijiki seaweed, which are typically used in authentic Japanese cooking. Foreign visitors to Japan may shy away from these unfamiliar ingredients, but they are what locals actually use in their home cooking. Many of them are also considered superfoods in addition to enriching Japanese food culture as we know it today.
This Japanese home cooking course includes 4 cooking classes, once per month from January-April 2021. The classes are offered every 3rd Thursday or last Saturday of the month. Please select the date for your first class. Currently, there are only 7 seats available, so book this Japanese home cooking boot camp while there’s still space!
Schedule:
Every 3rd Thursday from 19:00 OR every last Saturday from 10:00
1st class: 1/21 or 1/30
2nd class: 2/18 or 2/27
3rd class: 3/18 or 3/27
4th class: 4/15 or 4/24
Inclusions
4 cooking classes once a month (January-April 2021), every 3rd Thursday or last Saturday
Printed recipes
Full meal
Drinks
Meeting Point and Meeting Time
The cooking class takes place near Sendagaya Station. Meeting point details will be provided in the welcome email after booking.
Remarks
Please arrive at Mayuko's kitchen 10 minutes before the scheduled class start time (we will open 15 minutes before)
Please be flexible if the class on your chosen date has reached capacity
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, please wear masks while cooking
We would appreciate your help washing dishes you use
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 2 days before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.
Experience Location
Sendagaya, Shibuya Ward. Shibuya’s commercial area is a fashionista haven, home to department stores, boutiques, and entertainment. Shibuya’s most famous meeting point is Hachiko Statue. And you can’t miss the Shibuya Crossing. For two minutes at a time, the world’s most intense pedestrian crossing comes to life. A popular street photography spot, the crossing is symbolic of Tokyo, featured in films like Lost in Translation and Tokyo Drift. Another point of interest is Bunkamura (literally “culture village”) consisting of concert halls, a theater, a cinema, and a museum with changing exhibits.
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10 meals
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