This month, Washoku Lovers is introducing featured products! Each month we’ll be highlighting different Japanese food products that you can get in Australia which will help you whip up a Japanese feast at home. Our inaugural product is Maruko Gyoza – Japanese pork dumplings made in Sydney with 98% Australian ingredients. It’s quite impressive that […]

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On the 5th, 6th, and 7th of June, Izakaya Yebisu celebrated their 3rd anniversary! Washoku Lovers attended the tuna cutting show on the Friday. There was two sessions for the tuna cutting, one at 6:30 PM and one at 9:00 PM and the entire night there was a giant line extending all the way up […]

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Photo by K.Uchida Hello WASHOKU LOVERS! I am honoured to be writing my first post for the Washoku Lovers blog. My name is Marta, and I lived in Japan for 16 years, experiencing many beautiful Washoku restaurants before moving to Sydney. From this post on I would like to share with you some Washoku restaurants, […]

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Picture: Manpuku gets their nori sheets stamped with their shop name, it’s very unique! My first experience with seaweed, like many other peoples’, was sushi. Salty and kind of sweet, nori is the best known seaweed used in Japanese food. You might be surprised that although you’ve probably eaten seaweed in other forms, it’s not actually […]

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It’s not uncommon to lose an hour to the #foodporn trend on Instagram without even realising. You see a mouthwatering picture of a dish, click the geotag, view as much of the menu as you can, all while tagging your friends with not-so-subtle hints to go there next week. One of the best forms of […]

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On Monday night, Washoku Lovers was honoured to be invited to the residence of the Japanese Consul General, Mr Takaoka, to take listen to a lecture on sake from our most prestigious washoku chef, Hideo Dekura and then a sake tasting, provided by Ippin Brewery and JFC Australia, Sakenet Australia, and a special selection from Mr Takaoka’s […]

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Has anyone heard about the experienced Japanese sushi chef in Crows Nest? Even in Japanese society, @!Restaurant is a still hidden gem. Chef Atsushi started his career as a sushi chef 29 years ago. Since he moved to Sydney in 1993, he worked at Yoshii and Sushi e, and NOBU in the Bahamas. I visited @!Restaurant […]

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Photo credit It’s currently snowing beautifully in Japan right now, what a big difference to what we’re experiencing here in Sydney! An annual tradition in February is the Sapporo Snow Festival (running until February 18 this year). It features magnificent snow sculptures all around Odori park, and of course as with any festival, there’s lots […]

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Photo: taken from this Aldi commercial We have a pretty unique Christmas here in the Southern Hemisphere. No snow, no jumpers, and Santa uses kangaroos to drive his sleigh. But Japan is lucky enough to have the possibility of a white Christmas as it’s winter over there (and they have spectacular Christmas light displays!) in just the […]

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