NEIGHBOURHOOD FOOD WEEK: Authentic Japanese Cooking Class with Yoko Tomita

This Japanese cooking class shares basic recipes for servings of a rice dish, soup, main dish and pickle. These recipes are vegetarian but subsitutes can easily be added .

We will make:

Vegetarian Sushi Roll (smoked salmon is an option)

Miso Soup with Tofu and Green Onion

Cabbage Pancake Osaka Style (Okonomi Yaki)

Pickle (Daikon Pickles)

Okonomi Yaki is popular dish in Osaka which uses cabbage, sticky potato, flour, mixed with eggs and bacon topped with sauce, mayonnaise, sea weed etc.

Yoko Tomita (she/her) creates educational, accessible and skill building visual art activities for a variety of age groups. She is an art instructor for visual art class, lantern, origami workshops in Vancouver. She has worked at Collingwood Neighbourhood House since 2004 as the Arts & Culture Coordinator. Her work extends to Neighbourhood Cultural Network Developer for RCMAN (Renfrew Collingwood Multicultural Artists’ Network) and beyond for the community art movement. She also loves growing food in community, guerilla gardening and sharing her cooking skills! She sits on the Board of Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation.