Japanese Ideas
Japanese cookery classes for all and local catering
We decided to serve delicious and healthy Japanese cuisine here in Toton, Nottingham. Please understand that you will share a table with other people but you have something in common - enjoying Japanese food!
You can also book a private party at our venue. Choose what you would like to eat from take away menu page. Minimum 6 peoople. (Please add £20 to the total menu amount. This is to set tables, prepare plates, catlery, napkings, tidy up and washing up, etc.)
8 December 2024 (Sunday) pop up restaurant at 80 Portland Road, NG9 6EW at 12:30pm
The same menu as at Brecon Tap below. But kimpira on the third course will be replaced with Kabocha pumpkin which is really sweet and nutty. I am lucky to be able to obtain it.
£35 per person, BYO
10 July, Saturday 2021 - pop up restaurant (Your booking should be maximum 6 people - covid 19 regulation)
12:30pm
This is an elegant 6 course-Japanese meal.
(The menu is subject to change.)
1/ Omelette with crab, stewed large kidney bean, crispy vegetable tempura
2/ Prawn balls in broth
3/ Fillet of beef tataki (thinly sliced rare beef) or smoked salmon
4/ Grilled salmon marinated with lemon and soy sauce, cooked green leaves, grated mooli or radish
Pickled Jerusalem artichoke and carrot
Rice, Miso soup
5/ Dessert
6/ Tea or coffee
£30 per person, BYO no cork charge
7 September 2019, 6pm
29 September 2019, 12 noon
The menu will be subject to change
Vegetarian menu available on request
1/ white thin noodle (soh-men) in dipping sauce
2/ raw salmon and spring onion witn wasabi soy sauce
3/ stewed dish
4/ Cubed sirloin beef with Japanese style BBQ sauce on shredded cabbage, cucumber with sesame seeds, sea
vegetable salad, rice and miso soup
5/ dessert
6/ tea or coffee
£30 per head, BYO no cork charge
Japanese New Year special
What do Japanese people eat on New Year's day? Here is your chance to try it. We eat sticky rice cake in soup (zo-ni) and various dishes such as omelette with stock, sweet beans, fish, prawns, vegetable lightly marinated, low calorie starch jelly, stewed vegetable, etc.etc. More details will be published later.
The date is on Friday the 8th February 2019 at 6:30pm. £30 per person
The menu: (There might be a slight change)
mooli and carrots sweet and sour salad
fish (something else for vegetarian)
stewed vegetables
sushi wrapped with egg
omlette
stewed beans
king prawn (something else for vegetarian)
soup with sticky rice cake
kon nyaku (Asian potato family product but like jelly)
lightly marinated turnip
sweet potato
dessert and tea/coffee
25 November (Sunday) and 15 December (Saturday) 2018.
£20 per person, 12:30 start, booking essential
5 course Japanese Saturday/Sundy dinner with 9 different dishes
The menu
1/ Chickpea tofu
2/ Stewed lotus roots, fried tofu, turnip and carrot
3/ Tsukune (minced chicken balls with ginger)
Stewed shredded mooli and carrots dressed with sesame oil
Fried Chinese yam
Miso soup
Rice
4/ Dessert
5/ Japanese green tea, English tea or coffee
Menu on last pop up:
1/ Non-fried spring rolls
2/ Stewed potato and twisted kon-nyaku (konjak) * the same as zero calorie noodle*
3/ Grilled pork, white flish or salmon marinated with shio koji
Mooli with minced pork in thick sauce
Fried lotus roots
Green beans
Lightly pickled vegetable
Rice
4/ Sweet potato in aga-aga jelly
5/ Japanese green tea/ coffee
£20 per person
The menu on the 31st August 2017 "Bento lunch"
Chicken balls with ginger
Home made spring rolls
Potato salad Japanese style
Cucumber and wakame (sea vegetable) sweet and sour salad
Pickled cucumber
Rice
Miso soup
Dessert and Japanese green tea
The menu on the 27th November 2016 "5 course dinner"
1/ spinach rolled with egg, marinated cucumber, eddoes
2/ sweet Japanese potato
3/ pork fillet with ginger sauce or tofu steak, sea vegetable salad, sweet and sour mooli and carrots salad, rice and miso soup
4/ aga aga fruits jelly
5/ Japanese green tea
NB:All above still a part of a cooking class
