Sushi Roll & Gyoza Cooking Class with Tokyo English Teacher
In Tokyo’s Jimbocho Book Town, learn to make two of Japan’s most iconic foods — gyoza and sushi rolls — with guidance from an instructor who was formerly a high school English teacher for 20 years.
Highlights
Learn how to make sushi rolls and gyoza, two of Japan’s most iconic foods, then eat them with fellow cooking classmates
Receive close cooking instruction from a popular home chef and former English teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience
Take home English recipes to replicate the results in your own kitchen
Easy to access: the cooking venue is only a few minutes away from Jimbocho Station in central Tokyo
Experience Details
Consider the gyoza, one of Japan’s most ubiquitous foods. Often enjoyed with a tall glass of draft beer at an izakaya, the humble dumpling is one of the most important parts of Japan’s culinary culture. On the other hand, the sushi roll, or temaki-zushi: one of the most beloved shapes in sushi, alongside the seaweed-wrapped gunkan and the fish-topped nigiri. Two very different foods, yet both just as crucial to Japanese culinary tradition as the other.
This class offers you the chance to make them both yourself at this cooking class in Tokyo’s Kanda Jimbocho neighborhood, under the watchful guidance of your host Michiko.
It’s also worth noting that Michiko isn’t any ordinary host. Before becoming a culinary instructor, she taught English at a junior high and senior high school level for 20 years. Now armed with the linguistic skill to facilitate home cooking classes to English-speaking visitors from overseas, she’s made it her mission to teach the world about the wonders of Japanese home cooking.
You’ll start by meeting her in the morning at the kitchen studio, where after a short briefing, she’ll take you through the step-by-step process of making a sushi roll, from preparing the rice, to filling it, to rolling it up nice and tight in a bamboo mat and cutting it into even pieces.
After that’s done, it’s time for gyoza. You’ll make the mincemeat filling, and then perfect the (surprisingly tricky!) art of filling and folding eight of them yourself. When everything’s done, you’ll set the table with the rest of your classmates, and sit down to enjoy the fruits (dumplings?) of your labor. Don’t worry about taking too many notes, either; Michiko will provide the English recipes of everything you do that day.
After the experience, why not take the time to explore Jimbocho? With a high concentration of used bookstores, Jimbocho is a book collector’s dream come true!
Inclusions
All ingredients (e.g. sushi rice, fillings, seaweed, gyoza wrappers etc) and cooking utensils
Cooking class
Recipes to take home
Meal of sushi roll and gyoza
Exclusions
Transport to and from the venue
Meeting Point and Meeting Time
Meet your host at the rental kitchen where the cooking class will be held, north of Jimbocho Station. Further details and a Google Maps link will be provided on booking.
Remarks
Please let the host know at the time of booking if children under 7 years old will be present. The host will do their best to make accommodations for them.
Guests with food allergies or other dietary restrictions should inform the host beforehand. The host may be able to prepare alternative foods.
Guests running behind schedule must inform the host. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time may have adjustments made to their schedule.
Guests arriving more than 30 minutes after the start time may have their experience canceled without possibility of refund.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 2 days before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.
Experience Location
Over 14 million residents call Tokyo home. Functioning as Japan's economic and cultural center, it's no surprise the metropolis often appears at the top of travelers' bucket lists. Here, you can find everything from traditional tea houses to futuristic skyscrapers.
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