Miyuki lives with her husband and children in Chiba, close to Disneyland Tokyo as well as Narita airport. She will introduce you to Japanese everyday meals, typical dishes that the locals eat - simple, easy recipes cooked using fresh, seasonal and local produce. This is the kind of food you will find in a Japanese home and not necessarily in a restaurant. Join Miyuki and her family to enjoy some everyday Japanese dishes such as teishoku, a Japanese style set menu of one side dish, rice balls, miso soup, and one main dish or chirashizushi, a sushi bowl made by topping sushi rice with a variety of seafood, vegetables and egg or karaage, Japanese fried chicken or Japanese curry and rice. You will end your meal with Japanese style dessert and green tea.
Meet your host at JR Chiba station and drive together for 15 minutes to arrive at Chieko's friends home for your home-style Japanese cooking class. This is a hands-on cooking class where you can choose one menu from five options given. You will learn to make popular Japanese dishes from scratch in your 1.5-hour Chiba cooking class. They are authentic home cooked Japanese dishes - you will cook together one main dish + two side dishes. Chieko will share simple tips and tricks that she learned from her mother, so that you can easily recreate these dishes back home. After your hands-on Japanese cooking class, sit down to share these dishes you helped prepare. And after eating, you will practice the art of calligraphy, using traditional calligraphy brushes and ink to write your name or kanji characters.
If you select the optional alcohol at an extra cost, you will enjoy sake tasting or a tea ceremony, after your meal. Very unique and high-quality sake that is distilled locally will be served. And if you do not consume alcohol, a Japanese tea tasting will be offered.
