This week is Okonomi Yaki Week!

This week, from 23rd to 27th, is the Okonomi Yaki Week!

Between 12:00 to 15:00, Okonomi Yaki （£4.50） and Modern Yaki （£5.00） in Kansai Style.

Here is the menu...
Chicken
Beef shin
Seafood
Cheese & Sweetcorn

Of course, you can get take it away. 

AS I seem to be recovered from the nasty cold, I will do the Night cafe on this Thursday.
I will take out hot plates on tables during night cafe. 

If you want to book a table, please tell me from 6:30 or 8:00. please bring your favorite bottles as an-an doesn't have the licences. 

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...and,

start taking orders for the festive Ehou rolled Sushi for 3ed February. 

Ehou Maki (rolled Sushi)
with Smoked Mackerel, prawns, Japanese omelette, Frozen dried Tofu, Dried Shiitake Mushrooms, cucumber and Daikon Radish

Vegetarian Ehou Maki
Japanese Omelette, Avocado, grilled red pepper, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, mozzarella cheese

*Eggs and cheese can be changed to Frozen Dried Tofu and Mushrooms.                                                                                              

All are ￡4.50 each.

This year's Ehou is.....
slightly right of North North West 
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In Japanese Calendar, Spring starts from 4th February. Please take a good care of yourselves in this cold weather. Its not that long...💛

January sweets and events

Wow, I thought I have already published this newsletter in English...
Sorry for the delay.

As I have already announced in some places, I won't be able to have Okonomiyaki Night on Thursdays till the further notice. My condition is still not well enough to push in the evening.
Flue, I believe, gave me a miserable Christmas and New Year period... I ended up getting ant-biotics to concur chest infection.

Instead, I will have the Okonomiyaki Week later this month. So Okonomiyaki can be ordered for lunch.

I have put my resolution "a bit by bit, in my pace", but I haven't managed to get "my pace", yet. I, first, need to find "my pace". It's my first aim this year.

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January Sweets

Japan is still in New Year's period till 15th, so I will make so much for celebrating New Year's!

Black bean Mochi ￡1.50 each
Seven black beans in Mochi represents 7 gods(七福神). Chunky Adzuki bean paste inside. Hoping good health and luck in this coming year.

Hanabira (flower petal) Mochi ￡1.50 each
Burdock root in syrup and white miso bean paste in the pink mochi.
This started from the part of Osechi (お節 : celebration meal box for the New Year's Period). It is sweet, but savory as well. Available till 15th January.















Sweet adzuki bean soup with Mochi ￡2.00
Adzuki bean and Kuzu warm you up in the cold of January winds.
Available only for eat-in untill 15th January.

Usukawa Inaka Manju ￡1.50 each
Steamed yum potato cake with chunky adzuki bean paste. Candid Chestnuts through thin skin of Yum potato represent a rock with thin snow on top. Available from 16th January.

Daifuku Mochi (Smooth or Chunky adzuki bean paste) ￡1.00 each

Dorayaki (Smooth, Chunky or Green Tea) ￡1.50 each


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January Events

I would like to celebrate the end of New Year's Period... Is there any good idea?

Okonomiyaki Week
23rd - 27rd January
Make Okonomiyaki with the usual lunch menu.
I cannot use Teppan on tables for health and safety reason.
However, if I feel well enough, I might open Thursday evening... Please watch this space.

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3rd February is  Setsubun (節分）
We will prepare for the special  Fat rolled sushi for welcoming the first day of spring. (Japanese regards the 4th February is the first day of spring.)
Order can be made from mid-January.

Ehoumaki(恵方巻き) ー smoked Mackerel, boiled prawns, Japanese Egg omelette, Freeze-dried tofu,Shiitake Mushrooms, Cucumber, Freeze-dried Daikon radish

Vegi-salad Ehoumaki(ベジサラダ恵方巻き) ー Japanese Egg omelette,avocado, Red sweet pepper, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, Mozzarella cheese

Please let me know if you have any food you need to avoid on order. 

£4.50 each roll.

Planing a Japanese afternoon tea in the later half of February. 
Please check the detail on February newsletter.

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It's got really cold suddenly. It's funny to say this, but "please give a break to yourself and be healthy"

Happy New Year!!! It's the year of rooster...

When  I realised, it is already in 2017.
At the end of the year, my health condition deteriorated and some of you send me a really kind words.
I managed to made all the order of Osechi box, I run out time for making sweets...
Sorry for those came all the way to buy sweets...

So I had two days completely resting time and I feel really refreshed.
Cafe will open from tomorrow, I now making so many sweets to fill up the stock again.

I would like to thank all the friends and staff helping me to go through. Tetsuro went for shopping in London instead me on the Boxing Day. Fumiko cooked the best Kuromame. Nanae came to my home to help me cutting all the veges in decorative shapes on the New Year's Eve Eve. Tomoko managed so well on the busiest day of New Year's Eve at the cafe. I cannot list up enough ...  I really feel how lucky I am.

well, year 2017 started very low, but I hope all the bad bit had completed for this year. It only get better. w

Here is this year's resolution.

"NO Rush. Do things in my pace"

I tend to pack so many thing to do in a very small space of time... and in the end, I need to push my self over the limit to complete all.

This year with people's help, I will carry on making food and sweets with my best quality I can offer.
I decided that I would never push my self too much. If I try to do more than my ability, the quality need to be compromised. I don't want to do that. never.

an-an cafe will be 3 year old in this summer.  It's tempting to start something new, but I should be careful.

Last Summer, an-an was on Japanese TV, but I regret to say the program did not show the real an-an. What I want to keep in an-an cafe... it is "Real Japanese food and welcoming".
There are now so many restaurants offer "infusion food like Japanese" in Brighton City centre. They compromise taste and ingredients to meet British people's taste. But what an-an want to offer is real home cooked meal and comforting sweets, which Japanese want to eat over and over.

A small authentic Japanese cafe run by housewife.

That's an-an.

Hope year 2017 is the good one for all of us.　<(_ _)>
Now I need to write the January Newsletter!!!!