It’s been 2 years today since I started Washoku Lovers on March 9th in 2015! Happy Birthday Washoku Lovers! My passion to introduce Japanese food culture to all my friends is getting bigger and bigger. I’m always excited to see how many people sign-up to Washoku Lovers, what Washoku Lovers benefits you like and how […]

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Takoyaki is the first thing on my wish lists during a holiday in Japan. Takoyaki is a popular Japanese snack, little round dough balls containing pieces of octopus. The word tako means octopus and yaki means grilled.  It is topped with takoyaki sauce and Japanese mayonnaise, but I like to use okonomi sauce in place of takoyaki sauce. It’s often topped with seaweed […]

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Washoku Lovers Kitchen has been so successful with sell out classes that this time we decided to double it. Yep, for the first time, we held two cooking classes on one day! I can tell you from a staff perspective, it was quite a whirlwind, but seeing twice as many happy faces and hearing everyone […]

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On April 30, Washoku Lovers Kitchen welcomed our new permanent chef, Kanako Wada!  She specialises in decorative sushi, and is a whisky enthusiast. Her knowledge in the kitchen shows through her fluid teaching and movement around the Washoku Lovers Kitchen. With no signs of nervousness at all, Chef Kanako sat everyone down at the dining […]

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Our last two posts we talked about our Washoku Lovers Kitchen event for Japanese curry rice, and we gave you the curry recipe and instructions for making warabimochi. Did you try making any of them? Let us know if you did by leaving a comment! This week, we’ll tell you how the class went as a whole! It started in […]

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