Celebration for Setsubun!

"Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!"

We throw some roasted beans in and out of house. Beans ward off all the evils.

We celebrate the eve of first Spring by eating Eho－Maki (an uncut big Sushi rolls) towards facing to the North-north East, the direction where this year's god from.

We prepare 4 kinds of Eho-maki. Please eat up the Eho-maki with filled up with all the happiness to come. 

One miso soup will come with each Eho-maki

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Kaisen Seafood Eho-maki  £9
(Steamed prawns, raw squid, raw salmon, seasoned tobiko, smoked mackerel, sea sticks, and cucumber)

Classic Eho-maki  £8 

(Steamed prawns, smoked mackerel, cucumber, Japanese omelette, Koya-Tofu, sea sticks, shiitake mushrooms)

Salad Eho-maki  £8 
(Breaded prawns, Lettuce, cucumber, sprouts, carrot, Japanese omelette, spinach)

Vegetable Eho-maki  £7 
(Japanese omelette, Ko-ya tofu, cucumber, spinach, red pepper, shiitake mushrooms, cooked radish)

*We will exchange the non-vegetarian/vegan filling to avocado and Inari skins

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Roasted soy beans are also on sale. By eating the number of soy beans of your age, you will ward off evils in your body. 

Happy New Year!!!

 " New Year's Day is the best time to make the whole year's plans. "

But I'm doing it today, on the 2nd.

(This in itself shows the inadequacy of time management in the future 💦.)

Well, no matter. In fact, every New Year's Day has been a day for me to sleep in and get my strength back to a normal level.

Here are some of my resolutions.

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1) Revival of the Japanese A-futa-nun-tee
　　　　In the last few months, traditional Japanese sweets (not the ice-cream and chocolate-covered ones) have suddenly started to attract attention. In my opinion, wagashi is a simplified version of Japanese culture and customs. Yes. That's why I want to focus on wagashi in the future.

2) Change the course of Japanese cafe an-an
　　　　We've been doing too many things, so we wanted to reorganise a bit.
　　　　I've also been getting requests from people all over the UK to give talks and sell wagashi. I am very grateful for that. I would like to respond to them somehow.

3) Reviving the Okonomiyaki event
　　　　We had a lot of help from everyone to buy the trailer. We cooked okonomiyaki once at the end of September last year and it was very popular. In the spring and summer, when we can sit outside more often, we would like to have more okonomiyaki events.

4) Support for Japanese language exchange study groups and Japanese craft groups　　　
                 Thankfully, we get a lot of customers who are interested in Japanese culture and language. So if we could get together with other customers who share the same interest, it would be a great opportunity for us to exchange knowledge with each other.

5) Repaire the damage from the pandemic.
　　　　　Be kind to the environment as well as people. Think all the time before moving to action "There should be a better way" all the time. 

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That's about it for now. There's so much more I want to do, but there's no end to it!

And my personal resolutions for this year are...

Not using car (as much as possible) !

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I'm looking forward to seeing you all again this year. Let's do lots of fun things💓