Cultural Cooking: Japanese!

NEO has a tradition of hosting Cultural Cooking events as a way to promote cultural diversity, understanding, and appreciation among our members. Your RSVP to this event includes all of the ingredients to cook an amazing feast together. No cooking experience is necessary. Kids are welcome to attend with their guardians, and kids 12 and under may attend for free.

Your rsvp fee covers all of the supplies to cook our Japanese feast with plenty of leftovers for everyone to take home. Please let me know if you need to eat vegetarian, vegan, or Kosher/Halal, and I will be sure to include options for you. We will be making:

• Miso soup
• Makizushi - seaweed rolled sushi you're used to
• Onigiri - cute triangle-shaped, stuffed rice balls
• Nikuman - steamed buns like bao buns
• Gyoza - dumplings
• Hibachi Shrimp - learn about the best shrimp to cook with from someone who grew up on shrimp boats (ME!!)
• Some traditional desserts (Coffee Jelly, Matcha Butter Cookies, Mochi Candy, and Hawaiian Butter Mochi Cake)

You will learn how to make a sushi roll, and we will set up a buffet of ingredients you can fill your roll with. We will bring some sushi rolling supplies, but feel free to bring your own as well. We will not be supplying any raw meat for this event for safety reasons. All meats we provide will be properly cooked. If you want to bring sushi-grade raw fish or meat for yourself, you can.

Please check out our Signup Genius page to see if you can bring a kitchen tool that will help things go more smoothly.

This is a limited attendance event. Payment can be made here via Paypal or Credit Card. You can also pay fee-free via your bank's Zelle feature to "[contact@neoproject.org](mailto:contact@neoproject.org)" or at this QR code link. If you pay via Zelle, please message me so I can add you to the attendee list.

Feel free to bring any additional goodies you would like. This is a bring-your-own-beverage event. You may bring alcohol as long as we are all being responsible adults.

I hope to see you there! Be sure to come hungry, and bring some to-go containers or zip-lock bags. As usual, well-behaved kids are welcome to attend, and kids 12 and under can participate for free.

Because there is substantial planning for this event and supplies are purchased ahead of time, NO REFUNDS CAN BE ISSUED for this event unless it is canceled. If you cannot attend for any reason, you can give your spot to someone else or just consider it a much-appreciated donation. Thank you for understanding.

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