Our chopsticks...

We have used quality chopsticks for over 40 years.
This chopstick shop is thinking of retirement.
We miss them if they retires, but if they close their shop we have to
change our chopsticks in the future.

These chopsticks are made with tree of "Yoshino Sugi"

It is very expensive nowadays but scent so well!

It is important thing for sushi and Japanese meal.

We still use those chopsticks at least half year until we spent them all.

If you visit our restaurant, please enjoy our chopsticks too!

My recent work

I haven't update my blog for 2 month.. on my gosh!!

I've been working various ways...same as always.

Sushi cake 

I made a champagne bottle and Pegasus as I requested.

 It is a normal sushi cake called "Jewelry Box"

I made six different sushi cake for the party of the company.

→→　Here is my website of sushi cake(Japanese)

Sushi for delivery

Morning market

Sushi lessons

Now we have Tripadviser page!! →→ Minayoshi cooking school

Vegetable carving

I spent two hours for cleaned the duct.
In Osaka, temperature is over 35 degrees and my kitchen is not
enough to reach the air conditioner... so it was too hot!!

I went to the international museum to visit  Tower of Babel exhibition.
It was really great!!

Thank you for visiting!

Oki's cooking lesson for foreign tourist

There are so many tourist from overseas to Japan.
I heard that  Foreign tourists who came to Osaka between October from January  this year, seems to have been 5.25 million.

So I've been thinking about opening my short team cooking lessons for foreign tourist.
how that sounds?

If you are coming to Osaka. you can learn sushi or vegetable carving from sushi chef!

I think it is good about three hours at a time.
I'm going to settle the several course which I can teach.
You can choose what you would like to learn.

for instance,
Learning Sushi course:

/How to cook the rice
/how to slice the fish
/how to roll the sushi
/how to make the nigiri sushi

Learning Basic Japanese food

/how to treat the fish

/how to cut the fish in portion

/how to make miso soup 

/how to make basic fish dish 

Learning sushi cake for the partys

/how to cook the sushi rice

/how to cook the egg

/how to prepare the fish

/how to decorate the cake 

Learning Vegetable art for your meal

/Cucumber

/Carrot

/Sweet potato 

/fruits

and after the every lesson.. let's enjoy the meal that you made,
and questions and answers, talk about Japan and your country so on.

then Why only for the people from overseas?

Because, there are so many cooking school in Japan for Japanese already.

Also , I wish I could give a good memories and experience for foreign people 

who decided to choose Japan!!

You can take the lessons from 2 persons.

The lesson fee will be around 3500-5000 yen?  per person.

Here are some things that I have to solve.

/My restaurant is far from the station (8 minutes by foot),

/My restaurant is so small so if there are 3 or 4 more people,

 I need to rent the kitchen studio.

If you have any question or request, just let me know.

do not hesitate to write comment or send me a message from my profile.

or you can send me a message from Facebook.

I'll keep informed :)

my Sushi Cake PV

When I send my sushi cake, I always include 10 candle for them

because I want to Celebrate their time with sushi cake as long as they can.

Hopefully it became their memorial day.

(I made this for my customer's party at my restaurant)

I've made a 9 sushi cake for these 2days.

I took a loot of time to make a sushi cake,
so 9 was pretty tough!

Also, I made a video to introduce about my sushi cake.
My English is still broken, Camera work is obviously amateur
but this was what I wanted to do for a long time :)

Please enjoy it !

Video on Youtube=my sushi cake

My web shop from here=  Minayoshi no Sushi Cake

Sushi Cake

Here  are my recent work of Sushi Cakes.

This was a gift for DJ from his fan.

I put the name into disk(made by daikon) with

Christmas decoration.

 

 

 

 



The sushi cake which I settled the character of the

volleyball team.

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The character made by Sweet potato,Kyo potato, cucumber, aspergus,

Japanese　Leek  ,Carrot and lime.

 



 

Special sushi cake...with sweet potato's Ferrari(with food color) and bear.

 

 

 

With a kanji of "祝"　which mean congratulations!

 

So, This is how I make the name plate by vegetable.

 

 

 



Please Have a very merry Christmas, everyone!

various sushi cake!

Since TV broadcast of July, there are many orders for sushi cake!

Here is the special version. a lot of sashimi flowers and
animal veggie carvings.

 



For wedding party....flowers, carvings, and veggie name plate.
Congratulations!

Looking back the last month...
Star Wars Celebration6 was so great!
I've been thinking about overseas recently since I came back from Florida.

That experience remind me that I really like adventure...
It is wonderful thing to visit other country and watch the world.
(this pic is when I were working at toronto's restaurant)

If there is an offer of work by
events from the foreign countries....
I will participate positively!
but  I know I have a work in Osaka so,
short-term only...for now.

Maybe long term in the future!

Our food

These are the dishes which we cooked last week.

Sushi of the variety.

Otsukuri

main dish of the Today's course

Nigiri of Shirauo.

Cucumber Art 2

Today,I introduce my veggie carving which I made for broadcasted TV program last month.

I made 9 Buddha for the TV program.
but I did not made them from a wood.. from a cucumber.. for sure!
The TV crew added splendid work to my sculpture.

Buddhist saint...

His name is called "asura"
I made every one of them from 1 cucumber except him.
I put arms with bamboo stick for this asura.

The Buddha....They are the helo from long time ago..

The TV crew used the dry-Ice.
They got the inspirarion from my picture of the
Darth vader which I made before.

They did great work on it..
looks so beautiful arn't they?

Which one is your favorite? :)

They introduced our course menu too!

This is also my favorite carving.
white(Japanese White raddish) and red(carrot) pair swan.
I've been making the pair swan from long time ago because
A swan is a blissful animal.
also Red and the white combination are good for a celebration!

At last, I made a japanese comedian "masa" with sweet potato.
In TV,He called it as "me"!

by the way...Please allow for me to put subtitles on a
pictures recently.
I do not want anyone to do business with my pictures.
I just make them for people's ｆun!
Hope you enjoy the vegetables!

my knife

Today,I introduce my knife.

As I mentioned before, I used to work as a french chef
before I became sushi chef.
Therefore I have two type of knives.


It is a knife for Western food in a upper of photo , and the bottom is a knife of the Japanese food.

Those are 3 kind of whetstones.
rough sharpeners,standard and finish use.

looks like bussiness case but
Here is a "mukimono(veggie carving) tool"

This is inside.
There are many tools for making a vegetable carving.
Actually, you can buy High specification
Note PC for money to buy this tool.
Those are very useful for making Specific sculpture but
nomaly, I don't use.

I use those two. keen knife and knife of triangle.
Those are very useful!
you can try veggie carving if you have a keen knife like this.
Please try if you like:)