Ok me and my little boy used to love going to Nando’s but after trying everything on the menu we soon became bored with what is basically Chicken & Chips. We then luckily discovered Wagamama and we haven’t looked back! If in town it’s his no.1 choice of place to eat followed by anywhere that serves Sushi!

Anyway I saw a Wagamama cook book in a ‘Works’ book shop i think it was so bought it and shelved it thinking it was a bit too fiddly and complicated and best left to the Wagamama chefs. After talking about baking to photographer friend Piera Catalano (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1831558205#!/pieraphotos) she mentioned she had this Wagamama cook book and had made stuff from it and how lush it was… Well I remembered my book and dusted it off!

Me and Denon looked through it over the next few days and decide what we’d really like to cook… The list got pretty long and we ended up making:

Homemade Gyoza (dumpling wrappers)
Yasai Gyoza (vegetable dumplings)
Chicken Gyoza (Chicken dumplings)
Ebi Katsu (tiger prawns in breadcrumbs)
Ebi Katsu sauce
Tori kara age sauce
Wagamama Gyoza dipping sauce
Homemade Pickle Ginger
Homemade Pickle mixed vegetables
Red pepper egg nori
Salmon nori
Muscle Tori Kara nori
Mix vegetable nori
Chicken Tori kara nori
Salmon vegetable nori
Egg vegetable nori
Tori Kara chicken vegetable nori

After about 5 hours in the kitchen on and off and Denon rolled the Sushi rolls for me. We eventually sat down to our Japanese Feast! Denon always rates my ‘efforts’ a la ‘Come Dine With Me’ and he deducted that the meal was actually better than he had ever experienced in Wagamamas! lol This is from a kid who eats the tails of the Ebi Katsu too! Tbf I thought my Ebi Katsu were better too but maybe that was because we had 15 to share rather than the 5/6 you get in a portion at Wagamamas… AND we had another 10 chilling in the fridge to be cooked fresh for lunch the next day.

We have decided to make Japanese Feast day a biweekly event… I could have fed about 6 people on the amount I made so maybe I’ll have to invite some friends round next time or scale back a little bit on the quantities… or maybe not some how we managed to eat it in the end!

http://www.wagamama.com/shop/oneproduct/1/the+wagamama+cookbook

Mine doesn’t have the cd… I don’t know whats on that!??!? Music to cook to?? lol