Traditional Japanese Miso Making and Vegan Dinner with Miso Souvenir

About

You can learn and experience:

• How to make miso from scratch with the help of a macrobio vegan teacher
• How to make Japanese traditional dishes using Miso.
• Very traditional Japanese dinner including steamed brown rice cooked with the clay pot, Miso soup, some vegetable dishes, tofu dish and dessert. 
• A talk about soy beans and koji culture, the main ingredients of Miso with a hand out.
• To stay in the normal Japanese home with tatami mat room 
• You can bring back 500g of miso that you made in the class which will mature in 9~12 months

And if time allows:

• A talk about veganism and macrobiotics 
• The atmosphere is very relaxed, peaceful and intimate as the venue is located in the countryside, about 1.5 ~ 2 hours away from central Tokyo and  the number of the guests are small.   

Menu

• Miso making
• Brown Rice
• Miso Soup
• A few kinds of vegetable dishes
• A Miso or Tofu dish
• Japanese dessert
• Japanese herb tea

Schedule

• 1:30 pm: Pickup at the Bushu Nagase station
• 1:50 pm: Lecture on Miso ingredients and procedure of Miso making
• 2:30 pm: Cooking session
• 5:30 pm: Dinner
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Sending to Bushu Nagase station