“Kyoto Japanese Food Festival” 2020 to learn, taste and experience the appeal of “Japanese food” culture!

2020.02.17

On March 7, 2020 (Saturday), an event will be held on March 7, 2020, where you can learn, taste, and experience the appeal of the “Japanese cuisine” culture that has been passed on to Kyoto.
This year will be the sixth time, and the venue will be the area where the “Karamon” area of Nishi Honganji and the Ryukoku University Omiya campus are combined. Cooking, sales of lees soup, lectures on fermented foods that support Japanese food, hands-on corners for making bonito cuts and making Japanese food and sweets, and selling products such as sake, Kyoto pickles, and sweets. Admission is free!

Taste the sum

On the day of the event, a limited dim sum “Ume no Feast” and “Sakura no Feast”, which are jointly produced by famous Kyoto restaurants, will be sold for a limited 150 meals and 300 meals each. Please come and enjoy the gorgeous dishes that only Japanese food professionals, who represent Kyoto, can co-create here.

We also sell radish cooked and soup made by famous Kyoto restaurants.You can enjoy delicate taste that the skill of first-class cook glows.

The food court entitled “Another Kyoto”, with the theme of the sea, forest, tea, Takenosato Otsunori, etc. of Kyoto. We offer a wide selection of products such as deep-seated Kyoto pickles, sushi, sake, Japanese sweets and other products.

Learn about “和(WA)”

There are three workshops to learn about Japanese food: “Usage of rice koji”, “Japanese food making”, and “Japanese sweets making”! Even fun and easy-to-understand children can learn about “Japanese culture”.

Experience of “和(wa)”

In the experience corner, in addition to the items related to “Japanese food” such as a tasting experience of a famous Japanese restaurant and a bonito cutting experience, there is also a “food culture” experience corner such as a kitchen knife sharpening experience and a bamboo work experience.

Overview

Date: March 7, 2020
Location: Nishi Honganji (around Karamon, Horikawa-dori Hanaya-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto)

Admission free, no prior application required
>”Kyoto Japanese Food Festival 2020″ Official Site
http://www.washoku-kyoto.jp/

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