This coming weekend, the Japanese Summer Festival will open at Beit Zioni America in Tel Aviv, which will include activities, lectures, workshops, as well as a Japanese food market with a variety of stalls that will serve dishes that are hard to find in Israel on a daily basis.
The event, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, July 12-13, from ten in the morning until five in the afternoon, was produced as part of the Eating Asian TLV initiative in special collaboration with East and West, the Japanese Embassy and the Chamber of Commerce and the Israel-Japan Friendship Association (IJCC).
Soba noodles, come learn how to make them, photo: Manami
The festival offers hands-on cooking workshops for dumplings, udon noodles and soba noodles.
The participants will prepare everything from scratch, including a summer dish that they will eat at the end of the workshop.
To register for workshops and lectures
In addition to the workshops, visitors will be able to participate in interactive lectures for those who prefer not to get their hands dirty but do want to deepen their knowledge.
Cara Rice, seaweed, noodles and also a special lecture on growing Japanese vegetables in Israel.
These lectures will combine in-depth explanations in addition to live cooking when everything is filmed and projected on a screen.
The food market will be attended by:
KAMADO restaurant
- with dishes such as okonomiyaki (a vegetable omelet that combines vegetables, noodles and the special flavors of Japan) and a summer ramen dish called Hiyashi-Chuka, a fresh and cold version of the famous ramen soup.
Mantanten's Katsukara // Photo: Attoli Michaelo, Photo: Anatoli Michaelo
Mantanten Restaurant
- the favorite restaurant of the Japanese community in Israel, will offer a variety of Japanese-inspired street foods and cocktails such as Japanese Spritz: Tsuya (plum liqueur) and soda and Delolux: Ompon (citrus shochu), Japanese gin and soda.
In the food section, the restaurant will serve Katsukara - Japanese chicken schnitzel on a bed of white rice and a Japanese curry stew with potato, edamame stick, guma cabbage, karahaga and gyoza.
Gioza of Mantanten, photo: Anatoli Michaelou
Kyo-san's stand
- who just returned from a long vacation in Japan - will offer desserts centered on mochi waffles with traditional flavors: sweet soy and nori seaweed, matcha-anko (azuki bean spread)-peanuts, matcha-chocolate-coconut for sugar lovers.
Okasan Restaurant
- which focuses on home and folk Japanese cooking like her grandmother taught her.
At the festival, she will prepare steamed buns with 2 types of fillings: SHIGURE BAN - long-cooked beef with sweet soy sauce, TERIYAKI TOFU BAN - tofu steak in teriyaki sauce.
Traditional Japanese tea ceremony, photo: Maayan Diskin
In addition to the culinary experience, the festival also offers workshops and cultural performances.
Among the events: Taiko Life shows - a spectacular Japanese Taiko drumming show, martial arts shows (Aikido, Kendo, IAIDO, JODO and Nginta), a kimono complex, calligraphy - an exhibition + a live representation of the writing of Japanese bookmarks with the use of authentic brushes, Creative area: origami and writing names in Japanese, a traditional Japanese dance workshop and lectures.
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