Make Teriyaki Chicken & Enjoy a Local Lunch in Nara
Learn how to make authentic teriyaki chicken and enjoy it alongside 6 side dishes prepared by a professional cooking instructor in this tasty cooking class and lunch experience in Nara!
Highlights
Learn how to cook Japan’s signature dish, chicken teriyaki! Prepare Nara’s high-grade, free-range Yamato Nikudori chicken with an authentic teriyaki sauce.
Enjoy a variety of 6 side dishes carefully prepared by your host, Michiko, a professional cooking instructor who studied cooking at the Ritz Escoffier School in Paris.
10 meals
Experience Details
Teriyaki is Japan’s signature chicken, and rightly so. The flavorful, glossy teriyaki sauce imbues the meat with sweet and savory flavors, making it tender and moist. In this class, you will learn how to make this sauce, which needs a perfect ratio of soy sauce and sake or mirin. Beware, though: after learning this recipe and trying the real thing, your days of store-bought teriyaki sauce might be behind you!
Even the best teriyaki sauce is only half of the equation, however. The other half is in the chicken. In this experience, you’ll be preparing a high-grade, free-range chicken from Nara Prefecture called Yamato Nikudori, a variety known for its firmness, juiciness, and low-fat content. Your host will teach you how to enhance the flavors from the teriyaki sauce when marinating and cooking the chicken until juicy and succulent.
After the teriyaki chicken is cooked and served, you will enjoy it alongside six side dishes carefully prepared by your instructor using fresh and seasonal ingredients. The result? A delicious, copious lunch packed with some of Japan’s most famous and distinctive flavors for you to enjoy alongside your friendly host, Michiko!
Coming from a family of restaurateurs, Michiko studied culinary techniques at the Ritz Escoffier School in Paris. She is also a certified cooking instructor and vegetable sommelier in Japan. After learning about American home cooking from her host family in the US, Michiko made it her mission to share the cuisine of her home country and has been sharing her love of washoku (Japanese food) with the world ever since. Join Michiko in this unique class, make Nara's chicken teriyaki-style, and enjoy a delicious lunch made by you and Michiko!
Inclusions
Ingredients and utensils
Cooking class
Six side dishes prepared by your host
Exclusions
Transportation to and from the venue
Meeting Point and Meeting Time
Meet your host at Shiraniwadai Station Exit 1 (approx. 1 hour from Nara Sta.). More detailed information and a Google Maps link will be provided upon booking.
Remarks
Infants can join the experience without participating.
The experience lasts up to 3 hours.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 48 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.
Experience Location
The historic seat of power and faith in Japan, Nara has some of the most authentic and breathtaking culture in the entire country — and also friendly deer!
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10 meals
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