Japanese Ideas

15/11/2024

The kitchen takeover at Brecon Tap on Tuesday and Wednesday was successful and we served over 30 hungry people. Some of them never tried Japanese food before!

Sorry, I couldn’t serve all who wanted to come. Don’t worry, you will be the first person to know next time.

And Thank You, who helped me tirelessly.

13/11/2024

We had a dinner party class the other day. Look at the beautiful gyoza they made!

The day’s menu was:

Gyoza
Fried noodle
Japanese style omelette
Chicken Katsu

Yummy!

11/11/2024

Pop up at Brecon Tap is fully booked. THANK YOU! Please message us to be added to the waiting list

10/11/2024

👍🎉👍

07/11/2024

Pop up restaurant at Japanese Ideas after a long break!
8 December (Sunday) from 12:30pm, booking is essential.
email: [email protected]

The first course:
Japanese dashi omlette
Sweet and sour marinated turnip
Salmon sashimi (salmon can be cooked)

The second course:
Chicken balls with Chinese leaves in thick broth or
Puff tofu with Chinese leaves in thick broth

The third course:
Koji marinated pork fillet katsu or fried tofu balls
Lightly salted vegetables with Japanese salt and sea kelp
Kabocha pumpkin (Not aubergine as on photo)
Rice
Miso soup

The fourth course
Mitarashi dango (mochi like balls with sweet & soy thick sauce)
Tea, coffee, or Japanese green tea

£35 per person, BYO

29/10/2024

3hr sushi class is on the 18th November and 14th December from 10:30am.

You are making:
Hosomaki, nigiri, uramaki and chirashi zushi (sushi rice salad)
as well as miso soup. You will also take home some sushi of yours!

28/10/2024

News to anyone living in Brecon or its surrounding area. This is the chance to try authentic Japanese dinner!

25/10/2024

05/10/2024

今年もおにぎりアクションの時期がやってきました。今回は梅、紫蘇、天かすを混ぜて握りました。おにぎりを作って、ハッシュタグ付けて投稿するだけで、世界の子供達に食べさせる事ができるのです。

It’s onigiri action time again.
This time I made with sour plum, perilla leaves and batter bits.
Just make onigiri, post it with hashtag then children in the world can be fed is a great idea.

04/10/2024

Japanese dinner the other night.

I marinated pork with home made salt koji and pan fried, which made the pork tender and flavorsome.

The little blue plate has pancake made of mooli and potato flour, which texture resembles mochi. I topped with also home made koji fermented in soy sauce for about 15 days.

Others are kimchi, miso soup and of course, rice ❤️

01/10/2024

Sushi takeaway anybody?

27/09/2024

Koji is a type of mold, a friendly type.
Typically let it grow on cooked white rice but you can use other vessels such as brown rice, barley and beans.

They are key ingredients for miso, soy sauce, mirin, sake, etc. etc.

When you mix rice koji with salt and water, it turns to salt koji (shio koji). When you mix rice koji with soy sauce, it turns to soy sauce koji. Both need to be left for a while for fermentation. Once they are ready you can use it to flavour and tenderise meat, fish and vegetables!

On the second photo, left is salt koji and right is soy sauce koji. They are the starting point of fermentation. After about 2 weeks rice grains of each jar became really soft and mushy.

#麹　 #塩麹　 #醤油麹　 #英国で麹　 #イギリスで麹生活

25/09/2024

Steamed dish with sea bass and lots of vegetables.

I smeared “shio koji” on sea bass first. I’ll tell you about it later. It’s also called a magic seasoning.

Then put vegetables: Chinese cabbage (this is under the fish), carrot, various mushrooms and broccoli.

Sprinkle a little of salt and drizzle sake. Then steam until the carrot is tender.

It was delicious!

24/09/2024

It was a very enjoyable 1.5hr sushi class with this group of young men and a girl!

20/09/2024

I had a 1.5hr sushi class the other day. One of the participants is 11yr-old who did a brilliant job. You can’t tell which is his and which are adults’ sushi, can you?

17/09/2024

Japanese appetiser

Colourful sushi
Shish*to
Chicken and shiso leave wrapped in gyoza pastry

Sushi was coloured with beetroots juice, spinach and egg yolk, no artificial coloring!

15/09/2024

3hr sushi class on Saturday.
Loved their arrangement!
Every plate is unique and beautiful.

13/09/2024

Had a lovely time with these people for 1.5hr vegan sushi class. Look at the sushi they made!