Japanese Basics Cooking Class: Intensive

Recent reviews of Japanese Basics Cooking Class: Intensive

• 5/5 from Ian, attended May 2026: This was such a fun class!! Amazing to see how the meal comes together, fantastic guidance and tips throughout on authentic Japanese cooking, cannot recommend enough!
• 5/5 from Tanya Dayman, attended May 2026: My husband and I went together to do this course, and I’m so glad we did. We highly recommend it. And we learnt so much! Its helpful we both did it too, so we can prepare many dishes together. The focus on using live probiotic and gut healthy foods has changed our perspective on what we eat. Very happy with the course and have already booked our next one.
• 5/5 from Deborah Field, attended Jan 2026: This course was fantastic to learn the fundamentals of Japanese cooking. The class was taught at a good pace and highly entertaining. It was like magic how all the dishes came together in the end to form a gorgeous “gochiso”.
• 5/5 from Brian O, attended Jan 2026: Great class, Yoshiko is brilliant and hilarious, very encouraging. The food we cooked as a group was delicious, and the tips provided were very helpful.
• 5/5 from Rose Clements, attended Nov 2025: This was my third class with Yoshiko and was the best one yet. Very hands on, great food, and time to enjoy it. A small group made it intimate. The venue needs a jolly good clean though (main kitchen and toilets) but that is no reflection of Yoshiko and team.
• 4/5 from Mei Min Soong, attended Nov 2025: Good fundamental basics taught. Enjoyed the class thoroughly
• 5/5 from Alison Molloy, attended Jul 2025: Yoshiko was great at demonstrating Japanese cooking skills. It was very hands on and she was happy to answer any and all questions. Highly recommend this class. Great for couples.
• 5/5 from Genevieve Lusher, attended Feb 2025: I enjoyed the hands on process and doing this with the other students. The notes were good too and I took them with me to the class so I could add extra notes. I bought some ingredients at the class so was able to go home and cook agadashi with tofu. Really good to be able to confidently use the right flour on the tofu. That was my sticking point trying to do it on my own. Also there were gluten free options. My favourites were the eggplant, agadeshi tofu and teriyaki tofu and miso. All are easy to make. Being on a course really made me comfortable so I was able to duplicate recipes at home. I strongly recommend this course. Thank you Yoshiko.
• 5/5 from Rob Flynn, attended Feb 2025: Well explained, great tasting food, fun with a side of irreverence and some interesting info on health and nutrition.
• 5/5 from Robert Hosking, attended Nov 2024: Class was great. The teacher was also great and extremely knowledgeable. I especially got a lot from the information provided on the nutritional value and what Japanese items to buy and what not to buy. As well as learning to cook Japanese food we also learnt a lot about preparing the food to maximise its health value. Thoroughly recommend this class.
• 5/5 from Colleen Nolan-Kanazaki, attended Nov 2024: Yoshiko has so much knowledge to share about cooking and eating healthy Japanese food. Absolutely enjoyed the class. Highly recommended.
• 4/5 from Matthew Durden, attended Nov 2024: Yoshiko was an informative and fun teacher and i loved the recipes - ill make them all at home now.
• 5/5 from Benjamin Law, attended Jan 2024: Loved learning the fundamentals from Yoshiko, as well the insider advice on which brands to buy/avoid when purchasing Japanese supplies. Was surprised and impressed by how much we all learned together in such a short amount of time.
• 5/5 from David Dawes, attended Jan 2024: Great day being amused/educated by Yoshiko. The class was hands on and very informative and resulted in a delicious lunch of a range of dishes simple to replicate at home. Yoshiko’s knowledge of the nutritional benefits of the ingredients was broad and fascinating. Fun and excellent value for moneyI’ll be back!
• 5/5 from Deb Dibley, attended Jan 2024: Well worth the class. Excellent ideas and short cuts for a delicious Japanese feast. Yoshiko was a great teacher!
• 5/5 from Prema Balakrishnan, attended Jan 2024: Wonderful…thoroughly enjoyed & learned a lot. Yoshiko an Excellent teacher. Sumptuous meal with lots of tips to recreate at home.
• 5/5 from Carol Appleby, attended Aug 2023: I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of the Basics Intensive Japanese Cooking class. Yoshiko explained every step and we all got plenty of opportunities to cook under her guidance. The support staff were very friendly and generous with their assistance. I would recommend this class if you want to get excited and confident to try more Japanese cooking at home. Carol Appleby
• 5/5 from Michelle Campbell, attended May 2023: Fantastic teacher. Very knowledgeable and entertaining. Good venue and location. Very delicious food. Lots of hands on experience.
• 5/5 from Marie Mir, attended May 2023: Booked in for the Japanese intensive course (beginner/intermediate together). It is a busy morning, but the health advice and explanation of Japanese food, condiments and how to cook them correctly was priceless. Yoshiko makes the class fun and keeps everyone busy with preparing the dishes. The recipes with additional measurements for bigger servings was awesome (family of 6) and will be well used. The class does not cook each dish one by one individually, you start by preparing and chopping all the ingredients for all recipes. We then cook all the bits and prepare each individual dish. It all comes together served as a beautiful bento box with yummy healthy miso soup and side of tempura. We made everything we ate and it was healthy and delicious. It was amazing how much we made! Yoshiko is a wealth of information about how best to cook ingredients whilst keeping the best health attributes and not lose precious vitamins and minerals. The class is engaging, fun and hands on and best of all you learn heaps! Can’t wait to go back for more.
• 5/5 from Gina Pavlovic, attended Mar 2023: Wonderful morning spent cooking and learning with Yoshiko. It was very enlighting to learn so much about types of food
• 5/5 from Jemma Maddick, attended Mar 2023: Very enjoyable and great food. Learnt some of the key Japanese recipes. Class was a good size
• 5/5 from Marc Harry, attended Jul 2022: Venue perfect, teacher marvellous great time had. I learnt so much. Fully enjoyed myself and met some lovely people sharing a fantastic day.
• 5/5 from Joy Lum, attended May 2022: It was a fabulous session with Yoshiko and we had so much fun in a private class setting. She was fun, knowledgeable, precise and detail in conducting the cooking class with an efficient assistance. I have gained much knowledge on Japanese cooking, method and the basic ingredients. Most satisfying of all, was that all our food are vegan, healthy and organic!
• 5/5 from Min King, attended Feb 2022: The course was very fun and enjoyable! The food tasted amazing and delicious! Thank you Yoshiko and the team
• 5/5 from Vanessa King, attended Mar 2021: Loved it. Keeping up with Yoshiko is a major feat but worth every minute. The beautiful meal at the end of a well orchestrated learning experience was a pleasure.
• 5/5 from Angus Roxburgh, attended Mar 2021: This was a great class lots of fun and entertainment. Yoshiko is an excellent teacher. we are looking to book our next one
• 5/5 from Rose Lin, attended Oct 2020: I learnt a lot about Inari Tofu, Tariyaki Tofu and Tempura. I like them and would practice them at home.
• 5/5 from Tina, attended Nov 2019: I really enjoyed the class! Yoshiko is a great teacher, very passionate about healthy cooking.
• 5/5 from Alexandre Guterres, attended Sep 2019: Yoshiko is a great teacher, turning the class enjoyable while being instructive and interesting. Highly recommend!
• 5/5 from Gwen Richetti, attended Sep 2019: Fantastic class. Engaging, entertaining and easy to follow. What a great day and learning experience!
• 5/5 from Monique Perusco, attended Sep 2019: This is a great class. I really enjoyed it. Loved that it was healthy. Thanks
• 4/5 from Sayuri Shenoy, attended Sep 2019: Enjoyed the class, the teacher was pretty experienced and shared lot of insights into every ingredient. The venue was very convenient and easily accessible. Very good quality organic ingredients were used for the class. It was a very good learning experience. Please provide extra paper and pens to make notes while conducting the sessions
• 5/5 from Justine Waters, attended Jul 2019: Yoshiko and her assistant were brilliant - learnt so much and loved the course. Highly recommended
• 5/5 from Ruth Masih, attended Apr 2019: Teacher was very informative and detailed. Quality inputs on healthy ingredients. Ample handson and tasty healthy eating once cooked. Good venue. Parking took a while for first time. Suggesting Wilson parking near by Westfield. Mine required a full day as I took a basic full day basic intensive Japanese cooking. A must attend for a healthy eating. An excellent team.
• 4/5 from Tony Jordan, attended Apr 2019: Yoshiko is a very vibrant, knowledgeable and giving lady. Her style of teaching and encouraging participants is unique. Her recipes are easy to follow and she offers for sale key ingredients such would normally be hard to find. Her assistant Maya is the absolute foundation for each class The venue is acceptable but classes should be capped to many in a class means is harder to work safely.