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Tasty Home-Style Japanese Fusion Food + Guided Walking Tour in Local Neighbourhood

US$ 94 per person
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5.00 (7)

Starting time

10:30am

Duration

5 hours

Min. participants

1 Participants

Language

English

About

Hello! I'm Sato. I’m a cooking teacher. I teach Japanese home-style dishes for foreign visitors @ my apartment in Shinjuku,Tokyo. Are you into cooking Japanese food? Do you wanna feel more familiar with Japanese culture through cooking? If you are one of them, why don't you join my class? In my class, I'll introduce not only standard home-style dishes, but also will introduce various kinds of Japanese food such as Western Style Japanese food, Junk food, Spicy food, Exotic food and so on. You would be totally surprised at the variety of food you cook, but eventually you would feel very close to Japan!

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Expert Tips

by Cat Lau

Food Writer · Trained Cook · Hungry Traveler

" Meet a passionate home-cook who wants to share Japanese culture and food with you! "

What I liked: Meeting Sato-san was my highlight! He welcomed us into his home kitchen and shared everything that he knows about preparing Japanese staples like miso soup and rice. He shared his mother’s homemade miso with us and showed us how to properly make miso soup from start to finish. Sato-san was so excited to share his rice burger recipe with us because he wants travelers to experience this local favorite! His recipe was also extremely delicious!
What to know: Take the class with the tour! That would be my biggest tip. Exploring Tokyo’s hidden gems with Sato-san will give you an unforgettable experience.
Good for: People interested in getting to know Tokyo and Japanese food with a local.
How to get there: Shinjuku metro station.

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Included Highlights

All ingredients

Home cooking

Japanese fusion

Japanese junk food

Private class

Walking tour

Schedule

10:25 am: Meeting at the Shinjuku Station East Exit Police Box (Koban)
10:30 am: Cooking class
12:30 pm: End of course and eating
1:00 pm: Walking Tour by 3PM

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The menu changes depending on the day of the week. We’ll cook one of the menus with 2 to 4 items and afterwards we'll have a walking trip.

Menu for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

Teishoku / 定食

Let’s make standard Japanese combination meal! When you eat, you are already Japanese.

Donburi / どんぶり

Donburis is ‘Japanese Rice Bowl dish’ consisting with meat, fish and vegetable simmered together and served over rice. Lastly, put your love and soul in a bowl please!

Obento / お弁当

Let’s make Japanese lunch box and go on a picnic!

Tonjiru and Rice Ball / 豚汁とおにぎり

Miso soup with pork and vegetable. Tonjiru is Japanese gorgeous Miso soup!

Menu for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Curry Rice / カレーライス

Japanese style curry. It is our Soul food! You can’t go home without having it!

Other / Japanese Snack, Pop and Junk Food / 日本のジャンクフード

(Okonomiyaki/ お好み焼き・Riceburger / ライスバーガー・Kara-age / 唐揚げ・Yakisoba / 焼きそば・Gyoza / 餃子・Ramen/ラーメン)

We love to pig out sometimes! We love junk food, Why not?

Menu for Saturday

Temaki-Sushi or Bara-chirashi/ 手巻き寿司、バラちらし

Temaki-sushi is self-hand-rolled-sushi! We often enjoy it with family at home or at a party! Saturday is Temaki day in Japan! Do you know that?

Short Trip(guided walking tour) is everyday after lunch(morning class)! I’ll take you to several amazing places around Shinjuku which are not found in your guide book! Also, I'll take you to my favorite Tokyo place by train!!! It is totally worth it! It includes all the fee! You don't need to pay any extra cost!

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Additional Information

Meeting Point

The meeting point is at the East Exit of JR SHINJUKU (in front of KOBAN)

Meeting time will be like the following: Morning class: 10:25 am

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Confirmation

You will receive the confirmation of your booking's availability within 24 hours. Once confirmed, please present your booking reference number at the cooking school.

Cancellation

Full refund will be issued for cancellation made at least 48 hours prior to the activity

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JR SHINJUKU EAST EXIT(in front of KOBAN) 3-38-1, Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0022, Japan

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Traveler Reviews

"Good food and amazing experience"

The recipe for our first bento was easy to make and tasted really good. Going to make this at home again. The tour he gave is interesting. He guides us into small ally's with all different restaurants and gives you a local insight of the neighborhood. After the picnic, we went to a high building that gave us an amazing view of Tokyo. In the end, he even gave us advice about shopping places and things you must see if you already there. Book him if you want a memorable day out!

"A delicious moment"

Cooking a meal with Sato offers a unique experience that is disappearing in our times. We are offered the opportunity to learn to get more familiar with new ingredients and food while working with Sato, by helping him prep, cook and present a Japanese home-cooked meal. Sato is offering recipes that not only offer comfort, but are also delicious and beautiful. This is not food that we would find necessarily in restaurants. This is food that has been cooked daily over several generations, and which has been passed on to him from his grand-grand-mother to his mother. And what he has learned from these generations, he passes on to us his students. This is a style of meal we want to bring home and share with our friends. Sharing the meal prepared together is a real treat and reward, one of the best time we had in Japan.

"Best cooking class and amazing chef, Sato-San!!"

Please do yourself a huge favor and book an authentic cooking experience from Sato! He is such a kind and gracious person. This is an intimate and fun experience that shouldn’t be missed. We feel like we made a real friend in Japan! Thank you, Sato-San for such a great experience. One of our favorite things on this vacation!

"Simply delicious & healthy recipes!"

Sato's place was very warm and cozy. It was a very good opportunity to understand real Japanese homecooking! If you want to learn real homecooking which the Japanese make everyday, you should go to Sato's class. His recipes are very simple, delicious and healthy. Most of all, you can use it easily! That is why I strongly recommend his class!!

"Sato rocks!"

The cooking class with Sato was brilliant fun. We were welcomed into his home (in a cool neighbourhood in Shinjuku) and were shown how to make several Japanese “junk food” dishes (okonomiyaki, chikuwa fritters and pork yakisoba). He was well prepared - the ingredients, utensils and recipe cards were ready to go when we arrived. All the dishes were really tasty and will be easy to re-create now that we have returned home. After lunch Sato took us on a guided tour of nearby neighbourhoods (that aren’t in the guide books). Sato is a warm host, a great cooking teacher and an all-round awesome human. We booked this tour for our first day in Tokyo, it was the perfect introduction to Japan. Thanks Sato!