Emergency nortice for sweet lovers!

This Friday 26th is my birthday!

Usually, I have a dinner out with friends and enjoy Karaoke, but I need to travel early next morning.

so

I want to launch "an-an's food info exchanging session"!

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I love eating and learning all sorts of food.
Then, some of customers asked me to give some Japanese cooking sessions.

For win-win situation, I thought I can have a group activities to exchange cooking tips.

Anybody can join. It doesn't matter, if you are into Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, Spanish, French cooking or British. If you love spending time in kitchen, this group is for you.

The first one would be...of course,


Sweets!!! on my birthday.


Joining fee is... your homemade cake/sweets!

Please bring your favorite baking! You can try all other's cakes and sweets, too.
What you need to do is list up all ingredients on a piece of paper and bring it with your cake.
If you have some unusual ingredients, please bring some samples.

Fee is your knowledge and skill to bake.

That's all.

Please bring your tips for baking cakes and breads, ingredients for Vegan sweets, sweets for allergy sufferers, and sweets without any sugar or sweetner.

If you are not keen on baking by yourself, but love eating?
You need to pay £5.00 + drinks, but still you can join to this session.

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Friday 26th February, from 10am to 11:30 am. afterwords, cafe will serve lunch as usual.

if you have missed the Early Spring Japanese style afternoon tea, there will be some you can try on the day, too.

Look forward to seeing you!
xxx

February Sweets and Events

Japanese says January goes so quickly.

Yes, it had gone so quickly!!!

My finger, which was attacked by New Year’s Day prawns, my finger is still hurts a bit.

After the last blog, I took the antibiotics from doctor for a week, but my fingers didn’t get any better. In the end, I punctured my finger to take out bad stuff. The unbearable pain had gone, as well as the skin from the first joint of my finger…. Now I can hold chopsticks properly! Yey!

So, it’s February! Full of events! Full of loves!

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February Sweets

Umenoka £1.50 each

White bean paste seasoned plum pickle juice wrapped by pink mochi

Inaka Manju £1.50 each

Chunky Adzuki Bean paste and a sweet chestnut in skin made from yum potato.

Dorayaki (Smooth or Chunky adzuki Bean paste or Japanese green tea favoured filling) £1.50 each

Japanese pancake sandwich

Sanshoku Dango £1.50 each

Three colour rice dumplings on a skewer

Daifuku Mochi (Smooth or Chunky adzuki Bean paste)  £1.00

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February Events

Wednesday 3^rd

This day is thought to be the border between winter and spring.

We celebrate the spring to come with eating a special rolled sushi.

You will bite the whole rolled sushi facing towards the direction, which a lot of luck is coming from. This year, the direction is South-South-East.

Don’t talk while you are eating the sushi! The luck you are getting with sushi might fall off from your mouth!!!

Ehoumaki sushi - Cherrywood smoked mackle, Prawn, Japanese omelette, freeze-dried tofu, Shitake Mushrooms, Cucumber and Japanese radish

Vegetable salad Ehoumaki sushi – Japanese omelette, avocado, red pepper, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, Mozzarella cheese

Vegan salad Ehoumaki sushi – Freeze-dried tofu, avocado, red pepper, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, deep fried tofu

All are £4.60 each.

*Instant miso soup can be requested.

There will be some prepared sushi, but order in advance is recommended. It may take 20 min after ordered.

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Tuesday 9^th Pancake Days & Pancake night

I know it’s Pancake Day in the UK calendar, so why don’t I make Japanese style pancake on this day???

Japanese Pancake is savoury, called Okonomi-Yaki.

I will serve Okonomi-yaki on plates for lunch time, but if you book a seat on the evening session, I will serve Okonomi-yaki on hot plates, as we normally do in Japan. Regret to say, small children are not allowed for the evening session as it may be a bit dangerous.

All the menu contain Eggs, Wheat flour.

menu；

Lunch time between Monday 8^th and Friday 12^th

＊You can order from normal menu, too.

Pork berry　￡４.00

Prawn and squid　￡４.00

Chicken　￡4.00

Cheese（ｖ）　￡4.00

Modern (Fried noodle in Pancake)（ｖ）　￡4.50

Evening （19:00～21:00）booking only（up to 10 people）

￡10.00 per person（buffet & one drink）

Please bring alcoholic drinks as the café doesn’t have the licence.

（recommended to bring glasses too）

*Please understand, if booking is less than 6, this session might be cancelled. Please bring your friend!

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Saturday 13th

Second hand book market at Japanese school in Croydon

Croydon High School Junior Hall（Old Farleigh Rd, Croydon CR2 8YB）

9:50～10:40、11:25～12:00

You can buy a lot of spring sweets from an-an

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Sunday 14^th

Valentine’s Day

Sorry, an-an café is closed!!!

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Friday 19^th

Early spring Japanese Afternoon Tea

It’s in the half-term, so only 2 afternoon sessions happening.

Please check the morning session on Wednesday 24^th.

Booking necessary. 8 people in each session. £10.00 per person (1 drink included)

Detail will be announced later on this blog.

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Wednesday 24th

Early spring Japanese Morning Tea

Booking necessary. 8 people in 1 session. £10.00 per person (1 drink included)

Detail will be announced later on this blog.

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Friday 26^th

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It’s getting to the time It doesn’t amaze me any longer…

I will bake a big strawberry short cakes in Japanese style to celebrate.

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Ok, that’s enough in one month!

Let’s tackle and enjoy each event!!!