6 Recommended Ehomaki for 2018: This year we face south-southeast
Setsubun is the day before spring begins in Japan and is celebrated annually on February 3rd. It’s a time to cleanse the evil away from the previous year, done through a ritual called mamemaki or “bean throwing” where people throw soybeans. The night of Setsubun is also where people eat ehomaki, known as “good fortune sushi.” It is said that by eating one of these thick, uncut sushi rolls, bad omens will be driven off and you will live a year in good health.
In this article, we will introduce to you a range of different ehomaki that are being sold in 2018.
MINISTOP Convenience Store
For 2018, MINISTOP are serving up their regular “Koufuku Ehomaki” (Happiness Ehomaki), packed with good ingredients.
The Koufuku Ehomaki is plump with a carefully selected bounty of 7 ingredients that includes thick dark sleeper with shiitake, soft whitespotted conger, dried strips of calabash, and more. But that’s not all – there is a whopping line-up of 9 ehomaki to be enjoyed at MINISTOP. As well as the Koufuku Ehomaki, you can get your fingers on one containing fresh seafood (“Umi no Kougu Ehomaki”), one where you can taste the charcoal cooking (“Sumibi Yakigyu Yakiniku Ehomaki”), one containing rich sauce and soft pork fillet cutlet, and more.
MINISTOP Ehomaki
Applications: January 28, 2018 by midnight
Delivery: February 1, 2018 to February 3, 2018
Applications: January 29, 2018 by midnight
Delivery: February 3, 2018
Early Bird Discount
If you apply by January 20, 2018, you can receive a discount on select ehomaki. Select items include: Koufuku Ehomaki, Set of 3 Koufuku Ehomaki, Kaisen Ehomaki (seafood ehomaki), Set of 3 Kaisen Ehomaki
Webpage: https://www.ministop.co.jp/syohin/reserve/ehoumaki2018/
ATOM
ATOM Corporation, who manage izakaya and family restaurants, are to sell limited quantities of ehomaki for Setsubun.
The ehomaki use ‘nori’ (seaweed) from the Ariake Sea in Kyūshū that has been blessed in Hakusangu in Aichi Prefecture for sound health, safety of one’s family and business prosperity. Each and every ehomaki is prepared and rolled individually and with the utmost care and attention.
This year they will add to their “Premium Ehomaki” line-up and introduce ehomaki made with eel from Aichi Prefecture, with grilled blackthroat seaperch from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and with snow crab from Tottori Prefecture
Ehomaki
Available: February 1, 2018 to February 3, 2018 (now on sale for order online and in-store)
Homepage: http://www.atom-corp.co.jp/fair/fair.php?fair_no=2722
AEON
All 400 “AEON” and “AEON Style” stores in Honshu and Shikoku, as well as on their online shop, are to sell 19 different ehomaki.
The line-up includes thickly rolled ehomaki from popular Michelin 3-star restaurant “Sushi Yoshitake” that featured in Tokyo’s 2017 Michelin Guide, seafood ehomaki filled with fish praised by fishermen around Japan via “Pride Fish,” and more.
AEON Ehomaki
Available: 400 “AEON” and “AEON Style” stores around Honshu and Shikoku, and via the “AEON Net Shop”
Orders: Open until January 29th
Order in-store or online via http://chirashi.otoku.aeonsquare.net/ehoumaki
Release Date: February 2nd – February 3rd
Daimaru (Tokyo Branch)
The ehomaki available at the Tokyo branch of Daimaru will increase to 150 this year – up 10 from last year – with plenty of variety.
This year, Daimaru will also introduce nikuman (steamed buns), bread and more for Setsubun. So that the food event can be enjoyed a little longer, “Flying Ehomaki” will also be sold beforehand.
Tokyo Daimaru
Address: 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Opening Hours: 10:00-21:00
Contact: 03-3212-8011
Website: https://www.daimaru.co.jp/tokyo/
Sanda Hotel
Sanda Hotel have opened pre-orders for their winter-themed “Sanda Shunpanro Ehomaki.”
For Setsubun, the Japanese restaurant “Sanda Shunpanro” will sell luxurious good-luck sushi made with koshihikari, a type of rice, and ehomaki made with 7 ingredients. Be quick though, as they are only selling 10 sets of sushi and 50 ehomaki!
Sanda Hotel
Address: 1-11-2 Keyakidai, Sanda, Hyōgo Prefecture
Contact: 079-564-1101
Website: https://www.sandahotel.jp
Ehomaki
Price: Good-Luck Sushi Set (2 incl.) – ¥4,000 / Ehomaki – ¥800 each *price excludes tax
Reservations: December 18, 2017 to January 31, 2018
Delivery: February 3, 2018
Webpage: https://www.sandahotel.jp/sh/restaurant/shunpanro.html#ehomaki
InterContinental Yokohama Grand Hotel
The hotel’s pastry shop has created the “Eho Roll,” a confectionery wrapped with cocoa flavoured grape and stuffed with large strawberries.
The “Eho Roll” was first announced in 2010 and ever since has proven popular every year. The soft sponge contains mouth-watering fresh cream and is packed with big, juicy strawberries. The cocoa grape wrapping makes it look just like a seaweed wrapped maki. The blissful fresh cream and sweet and sour fresh strawberries make a perfect match.
InterContinental Yokohama Grand Hotel – “Eho Roll”
Location: i MARINA, 2F Gourmet & Souvenirs
Available: January 27, 2018 to February 3, 2018
Time: 10:00-20:00 *sales will cease once sales have finished for the day
Price: ¥692 each (tax incl.)
Did you like this list? Get your hands on your own good-fortune ehomaki, face south-southeast and eat your way into a healthy year.
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Carrot & Cream Cheese Chawanmushi
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Ingredients (Serves 1)
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60g carrots
240ml dashi
20ml soy sauce
120ml Mikawa Mirin
8g sugar
18g cream cheese
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Okra
30ml dashi
0.5g salt
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We will start by making the chawanmushi.
1. Slice the carrots and boil them until they become soft.
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While the chawanmushi is cooling, we’ll make the okra-an.
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6. Add the okra-an to the cooled chawanmushi and tuck into your cute two-layered dessert.
Carrot & Cream Cheese Chawanmushi
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–How’s the taste?
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Kaji Donya
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Information
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THE JUNEI HOTEL Kyoto is a small luxury tourist hotel housing eleven rooms in total, including its Bamboo Suite. Bamboo can be found throughout all the rooms as part of the hotel’s concept: “A sojourn embraced by bamboo in a moonlit space.” The rooms, as well as the hotel interior overall, showcases beautiful traditional handiwork using bamboo.
Inside Nikukappou Futago
Nikukappou Futago fuses traditional Japanese elements with modern ones. It features half-size eating areas as well as private areas. Customers can expect their private dining experience to include freshly-cooked full courses with high quality Japanese wagyu and seasonal ingredients.
Menu in Japanese *Menu will change monthly
Nikukappou Futago’s concept is “A relaxed adult’s Iki.” The word iki here refers to a range of different meanings in Japanese, like “sophistication,” “breath,” “spirit,” and “life.” The restaurant will work to serve a hospitable service that enables each and every person to enjoy that iki that lives inside them.
Foie Gras & Wagyu Filet Mouthful Bowl
Wagyu Loin & Kyoto Vegetable Shabu-shabu
The course is made with seasonal ingredients and vegetables. Plus, in using a range of cooking methods, the original flavour meat of the meat is intensified.
Wagyu Sirloin Sumiyaki
Enjoy a selection of high-quality rare wagyu cuts like sirloin, filet, loin, and more. You can also enjoy a selection of classic Japanese dishes like yakiniku, shabu-shabu, and sukiyaki, all in one course.
Like the changing seasons in Kyoto, the menu will be altered every month to bring something new. Discover your iki and enjoy a great meal at Nikukappou Futago.
Information
Nikukappou Futago THE JUNEI HOTEL KYOTO
Address: THE JUNEI HOTEL KYOTO Floor 1F, 4-139 Honmachi, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto
Grand Opening: March 27, 2020
Opening Hours: 17:00-23:00 (Last Orders 22:00)
No Fixed HolidaysSeats: 32 (6 Half-Size Rooms / 2 Private Rooms
TEL: 075-525-0052Course Price: ¥11,000 (Tax and service charge not included) *Course menu to change each month
Official Website: https://nikutei25.com/
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03.March.2020 | FOOD
The final round for the 7th Washoku World Challenge Competition was held in Tokyo on February 20 and 21, which saw WANG Wei Ping of China, and chef at SUN with AQUA JAPANESE DINING SUNTORY, as the winner.
The two-day event brought together five chefs from Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, Donostia-San Sebastian, and New York come together to compete and show their skills create dishes based on the competition’s main theme of “Umami” and this year’s theme of “Texture and Mouthfeel.”
The judges said: “This 7th edition demonstrates that the finalists’ technical level keeps improving every year. Creating Japanese dishes that incorporate the characteristics and unique ideas of other countries’ culinary cultures, while respecting the fundamentals of Japanese cuisine built on the concept of umami, expands the potential of Japanese cuisine. The creations of each one of the finalists embodied this notion.”
Middle Contender: WANG Wei Ping, 1st Place Winner
WANG Wei Ping’s Dish
On the first day, the chefs used the same ingredients to create a “nimonowan.” On the second day, they forged their own original dishes using five or more ingredients which they arranged on a Japanese “hangetsubon” tray.
When reacting to his victory, Wang Wei Ping said: “I thank the owner and other members of my restaurant. After returning to Shanghai, I would like to continue conveying the excellence of Japanese cuisine, which is both healthy and tasty.”
Finalists
Hong Kong
First Place: WANG Wei Ping (China, SUN with AQUA JAPANESE DINING SUNTORY)
USA
Second Place: Yael PEET (USA, Fury’s) *The restaurant will be open this summer.
Singapore
Third Place: Loh Man HONG (Singapore, FAT COW)
Paris
Wojciech POPOW (Poland, Beaverbrook)
Judges
– Head Judge: Mr. Yoshihiro MURATA
(Chairman of Japanese Culinary Academy, Owner and chef of Kikunoi, Japanese Cuisine Goodwill ambassador)
– Deputy Head Judge: Mr. Masahiro NAKATA
(Director of Taiwa Gakuen Education Inc. President of Kyoto Culinary Art College)
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Public bath houses play an important part in Japanese culture by contributing to people’s mental health and creating communities. This is especially so in a city as busy as Tokyo. That’s where URBAN SENTO comes in, which will encourage the rediscovery of the city’s appealing culture through sento.
Pre-sales for the new clothing line opened on the URBAN RESEARCH online store on February 14, 2020. It features a collection of must-have items for the bath house, whose message is to spread the bath house lifestyle.
Apparel
To ensure the clothing is comfortable as bath-wear, the collection is made from high quality cotton provided in collaboration with HAAG, a brand managed by Smile Cotton. This cotton is nice and soft and does not rub against the skin. Smile Cotton’s materials are even endorsed by the Japan Atopic Dermatitis Patients Association.
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Short Pants – ¥12,100 (Tax Included) | Sizes: Small/Medium/Large | Colours: White/Light Grey/Black
ZIP Parker Hoodie – ¥16,500 (Tax Included) | Sizes: Small/Medium/Large | Colours: White/Light Grey/Black
Pouch (Medium Size) – ¥3,080 (Tax Included) | Colours: White/Navy/Orange
The mesh pouch can be taken into the bath with you. Put your shampoo or other bath products in with you and take a dip.
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Kimura Soap x URBAN SENTO
The products used for cleaning yourself at Kosugi-yu, as well as what’s used for washing the towels, is soap provided by Kimura Soap. This pure soap, crafted by artisans by cooking in kettles, is friendly to the environment and the skin. It can be used at the bath house, in the bath at home, or even for your laundry.Body Soap (Hinoki Cypress/Lavender) – ¥1,980 (Tax Included)
This body soap gently lathers your skin in bubbles and leaves your skin filling refreshed. Both the hand soap and body soap feel good to use.
The a video and main visual were released for URBAN SENTO, which feature Japanese music artists Yusuke Emoto and Aoi Nogi as the models.
Information
JAPAN MADE PROJECT TOKYO “URBAN SENTO”
Pre-sales: Opened February 14, 2020
Available: URBAN RESEARCH online store
*Only a select number of items are available in the pre-saleGeneral Sale: March 20, 2020
Available: URBAN RESEARCH online store / URBAN RESEARCH Jinnan / URBAN RESEARCH Namba CITY / URBAN Famima!! Toranomon Hills Business Tower
*Store list subject to changeOfficial Website: https://media.urban-research.jp/news/61847/
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Fermented Food Cafe ‘Tsuke x Koji Haccomachi’ to Open in Kyoto’s Sanjo Area
19.February.2020 | FOOD
Tsuke x Koji Haccomachi is a new cafe opening in the Sanjo area of Kyoto on February 22, 2020, that is centred entirely on fermented foods.
The name “Haccomachi” derives from the Japanese word Hakko (Hacco), meaning fermented, and Komachi (Comachi), meaning a beautiful woman. The cafe hopes for people to incorporate fermented foods into their livesーsomething which is rooted in Japanese food cultureーand live comfortably.
The cafe’s logo showcases the making of kōjiーa type of mould used in the fermentation process of certain food products in Japan, like soybeans. The logo hope to pass down this long upheld tradition.
Hakko fermentation is a major part of Japan’s food culture. Since ancient times, the sweetness and umami brought about by the enzymes in the fermentation process have served to accompany many foods in the country, such as miso, soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, and so onーall traditional condiments used in the Japanese kitchen that are still fundamental today.
The menu at Tsuke x Koji Haccomachi features a line-up of fermented foods made in Kyoto, including those from Kyoto-based soybean makers Fujiwara Shokuhin, Sawai Shoyu Honten which has produced the same high quality soy sauce for decades, sake brewery Kitagawa Honke which has been around since the Edo Period, and more.
A Small Look at the Menu
Lunch Menu
Haccomachi Special – Fermented Lunch Plate: ¥1,690
This lunch plate is an assortment of hors d’oeuvre made with fermented condiments, tandoori chicken that has been pickled to elevate the umami, marlin fish, soup, and more.
Dinner Menu
Spare Ribs On The Bone in Miso Yuan Yaki: ¥1,490
This hearty portion of spare ribs are marinated in a miso, mirin, and soy sauce mix. Taste the full umami flavour of the juicy meat.
Namerō Miso Salmon in Yoghurt Sauce: ¥770
The salmon is served namerō style, a type of tataki or pounding method, in miso. The yoghurt has both a refreshing and rich flavour.
Homemade Komekoji Rice Malt Sweet Sake Yoghurt: ¥470
The splitting of the sour yoghurt serves to elevate the sweetness of the sake. This is a drink that even those who don’t like sweet sake are sure to enjoy.
Cafe Menu
Miso Pound Cake w/ Vanilla Ice Cream: ¥550
The miso pound cake is a collaboration with Japanese confectionery company Sarasa, which has 6 branches of cafes and shops in Kyoto. It’s made using komekoji rice malt powder provided by an old-fashioned Japanese shop (菱六もやし). The umami of the miso is intensified, and the cake stays moist thanks to the powder. It’s served with a dollop of refreshing vanilla ice cream.
Blackcurrant & Vanilla Sweet Sake Affogato: ¥550
A unique spin on the affogato dessert which has you pouring hot sweet sake over tangy and refreshing blackcurrant sherbet and rich vanilla ice cream. Enjoy the mix of the hot sake and the cool ice cream.
Discover the Japanese tradition of fermentation at Tsuke x Koji Haccomachi, opening February 22, 2020.
Information
Tsuke x Koji Haccomachi
Grand Opening: February 22, 2020
Address: 78-1 Masuyacho, Shitagaru Yanaginobamba Sanjo-dori, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto,
Opening Hours: [Weekdays] 11:00-15:00 & 17:00-22:00 / [Weekends & Holidays] 11:00-22:00Closed: Wednesdays
Official Website: https://haccomachi.jp/