Hello! Welcome to Sapporo, Hokkaido!
How about joining my Japanese cooking class?
Hello! Welcome to Sapporo, Hokkaido! During your stay in Hokkaido, how about joining my Japanese cooking class?
I extend a warm invitation to my class, where you can learn popular Japanese dishes, including some of Hokkaido’s local specialties.
1. Shogayaki (Japanese grilled pork) Let’s learn one of the typical main dishes of Japanese cuisine.
2. Chirashizushi (A kind of Japanese sushi) How about making a sushi dish which is popular for cooking at home.
3. Dashimaki Tamago (A kind of Japanese fried egg, savory not sweet) Try your hand at making square-shaped fried egg, which is a popular side dish.
4. Kimpira Gobou (A typical Japanese side dish which uses carrot and burdock) A great chance to enjoy cooking and eating burdock (a root plant), which is healthy and nutritious.
5. Salad (With a typical Japanese sumiso dressing) Add this Japanese salad dressing to your cooking skill set.
1. Jingisukan (Japanese grilled lamb) Let’s learn about this Hokkaido specialty and the way of marinating lamb.
2. Onigiri (Handmade rice ball) Discover how to make triangle-shaped rice balls by hand.
3. Dashimaki Tamago (A kind of Japanese fried egg, savory not sweet) Try your hand at making square-shaped fried egg, which is a popular side dish.
4. Kimpira Renkon (A typical Japanese side dish which uses carrot and lotus root) A great chance to enjoy cooking and eating the healthy and nutritious root of the lotus.
5. Salad (With a typical Japanese sumiso dressing) Add this Japanese salad dressing to your cooking skill set.
I am happy to prepare menus for vegetarian or vegan or Muslim customers. Please let me know in advance on the application form.
Facilities:I am happy to prepare menus for vegetarian or vegan or Muslim customers. Please let me know in advance on the application form.
Facilities:1. Jingisukan (Japanese grilled lamb) Let’s learn about this Hokkaido specialty and the way of marinating lamb.
2. Onigiri (Handmade rice ball) Discover how to make triangle-shaped rice balls by hand.
3. Dashimaki Tamago (A kind of Japanese fried egg, savory not sweet) Try your hand at making square-shaped fried egg, which is a popular side dish.
4. Kimpira Gobou (A typical Japanese side dish which uses carrot and edible burdock) A great chance to enjoy cooking and eating edible burdock (a root plant), which is healthy and nutritious.
5. Salad (Two typical Japanese dressings are used) Add Japanese salad dressings to your cooking skill set.
Shougayaki is a popular dish using shouga, or ginger. Usually, pork is the staple ingredient in shougayaki. Some people like to marinate pork in soy sauce based sauce with ginger before cooking, while some like to put the pork and sauce together, then fry. Either way, shougayaki is a very popular dish in Japan. Typically, it’s served as a set meal or bento meal box at typical restaurants and izakaya restaurants. Many izakaya restaurants open at lunch time, offering different menus from dinner time. They usually offer only set meals and shogayaki is usually on it.
Chirashi-zushi is a kind of sushi, with several cooked ingredients placed atop vinegared rice (sumeshi). Su means vinegar and meshi stands for rice. People outside may perhaps think sushi is just like fresh sashimi which comes as a bite size rice serving which is called Nigiri-zushi. However, we have many types of sushi, and Chirashi-zushi is one of them. At home, Chirashi-zushi is usually cooked on happy days of celebration. Toppings such as shiitake mushroom, dried gourd shavings, deep-fried tofu, carrot and strings of fried egg are commonly used.
Jingisukan is a local Hokkaido meat experience using lamb or mutton. In Hokkaido, it’s eaten through the year, either in the home or outdoors. Some people say Jingisukan is a hot pot, but its cooking style is simply meat cooked on a hot plate. There are two ways of enjoying Jingisukan. One is dipping the meat in a special sauce after cooking, while the other is marinating the meat before cooking. Soy sauce based sauce is used predominantly, but some prefer miso based sauce instead. Cooking with vegetables like beans sprouts, onion, and pumpkin is the typical style. In Hokkaido culture, yakiniku (grilled meat) equals Jingisukan.
Onigiri is translated as rice ball in English, but its significance to the Japanese lifestyle and cuisine in particular is present at every turn. Onigiri are eaten in various situations. In the home, they're made for lunch in everyday life, or for picnics and such. It has been a handy meal for hundreds of years. Traditionally, ingredients which are a little salty or sour are popular because of the taste itself and their 'shelf life.' Pickled ume (Japanese plum), dried bonito with soy sauce and boiled kombu kelp are common ingredients. At onigiri specialty shops, they have signature recipes. At convenience stores, tuna with mayonnaise is popular.
Dashimaki Tamago is a dish of fried eggs, which are first beaten and cooked with dashi. Dashi is Japanese soup stock made from fish or kombu kelp, while tamago means egg. It is nigh on a regular feature of menus in izakaya restaurants, but still typical for home cooking. This is a kind of Atsuyaki Tamago, thick fried egg rolled up. But, Dashimaki Tamago features the flavor from dashi. Because of the soft and juicy texture, it’s also popular for bento lunch boxes. To cook it, a special frying pan of a square shape is used. As for eggs in Hokkaido, they are 100% Hokkaido sourced.
Kimpira is one of the most popular side dishes in Japanese cuisine. Kimpira is the name of a boy in a famous, old Japanese tale who is physically very strong. Gobou is burdock and Renkon is lotus root. Both are popular ingredients in Japanese dishes. Gobou is used as a medical plant in Japan, while renkon is used in dishes for New Year celebration. To cook Kimpira, the burdock is chopped into thin strips, while the lotus root is sliced. They are cooked in soy sauce and a bit of sugar.
A (7500 yen): One participant, one set meal, with one cook station with gas element
B (7000 yen each): Two participants, set meal for each person, with one cook station with gas element
A group of friends can choose from type A or type B.
The price includes
-Home cooking experience and eating your creation
-Supermarket tour
-Short presentation of Japanese cuisine and dishes, ingredients, nutrition and Japanese and local Hokkaido food culture
-Recipe card
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My cooking studio is near Sapporo Station.
We can meet outside the Kinokuniya bookstore next to Sapporo Station. From Kinokuniya, it takes about five minutes on foot to the cooking lesson venue.
For the supermarket tour, after enjoying the fruits of your labor, we will go to Aeon Souen. It takes about 10 minutes on foot from the cooking venue. Aeon Souen is next to Souen Station, on the JR Hakodate train line, one stop from Sapporo Station.
Aeon Souen is a big shopping center with supermarket and many other shops. We usually finish the cooking experience here. You can enjoy shopping for souvenirs or just look at Japanese food or snacks.
Hello, I am Aki. Thank you for your interest in my cooking class. Your cooking experience will be an individual experience, so everyone can learn the same process from beginning to end, using their own cook station, complete with gas element.
You can enjoy talking about Japanese cuisine, ingredients, hidden sightseeing spots in Hokkaido or anything else that springs to mind.
I have five certificates related to food and sightseeing: Sapporo City Guide, Hokkaido Food Meister and Hokkaido Sightseeing Master, Dietary Advisor (Advanced), as well as Food Hygiene Manager.
When I was an elementary school student, I used to help my mother cook dinner. I enjoyed it, and learned home cooking dishes and their recipes. After graduating from university, I worked for a ramen noodle company and ate ramen almost every day! As I wanted to see the world, I lived in New Zealand for two and half years. I really like to cook, and to meet people from all over the world. I am very proud to have established this cooking studio!
I hope to see you sometime!
Review
Thank you very much!
We had a great time yesterday ~
Thank you for teaching us how to cook local food and bring us to the supermarket.
I hope we can meet someday next time!
From Lydia (China)
The Jingisukan (Genghis Khan) style grilled lamb - a Hokkaido speciality and Dashimaki Tamago - a tasty egg dish cooked in a square pan, were the highlights for us. But, all the food we cooked was great.
We had a lot of fun and will attend Aki's cooking class again for sure when we return to Sapporo.
We also really enjoyed the tour around the Japanese supermarket that was part of the experience. Aki was very entertaining in explaining all the different foods and items in the supermarket and explained how they are used.
From Sam (New Zealand)
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