March 18, 2009
Madame Saito’s Sushi Making Class @ the Cherry Blossom Festival
Anyone who has tried to make sushi at home knows how difficult it can be to make something beautiful out of vinegared rice and nori. (How do all the sushi joints in the city make it seem so darned easy?) Luckily, Madame Saito, Philadelphia’s leading sushi instructor, is here to help. As part of the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival, the always-entertaining owner and chef of Le Champignon de Tokio, a French/Thai/Japanese fusion restaurant in Society Hill, will be offering two courses in which she’ll cover the whole tricky process of sushi construction. The two-hour courses will cover everything from rice preparation to final presentation and will culminate with everyone eating their new work.
Madame Saito knows her stuff. In addition to running a restaurant, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Sushi” has taught sushi at Temple for over 14 years, taking maki-making to new academic highs. Born in Japan, she studied at the Le Cordon Bleu and the Ritz Escoffier in Paris, and she always manages to combine her many interests with sushi (visit her website for more information on the Madame Saito Sushi and Ballroom Dancing Club).
If you discover during the class that sushi is your true calling, you can test your skills at the fifth annual Amateur Sushi Making Contest (presented by Temple and, of course, Madame Saito herself) at the Pyramid Club on April 2. If nothing else, you’ll impress your friends by moving beyond pasta and baked chicken for your next dinner party.
Madame Saito’s Sushi Making Class
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 6:30pm, or Sunday, March 22, 2009, 6:30pm
$30, includes all equipment.
Le Champignon de Tokio
124 Lombard St., Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 922-2515
Temple University Amateur Sushi Making Contest
April 2, 2009, 6:30-9:30pm
Pyramid Club
1735 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19103
$10 for spectators, $45 for contestants
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March 18, 2009, 9:23 am
alexis says:
this sounds like a fabulous event. maybe I’ll finally be able to stop picking up sushi-to-go from whole foods and make my own. here’s to hoping.
March 18, 2009, 9:23 am
phillygrrl says:
Oooh, I love Madame Saito. She sure does know how to make sushi.
March 18, 2009, 9:23 am
Toddly Man says:
Madame Saito is GREAT! My whole family went to the sushi making contest last year to watch her students of all ages create visual poetry and crazy cool camp creations using the sushi they were all making.
Dragons and monsters, guitars and moonlight through the fog in a swamp, if you can dream it using sushi, you can make it at the contest.
We promised ourselves that we would take her class. Hopefully we will this year!
March 18, 2009, 9:23 am
Sofia says:
I LOVE Madame Saito she was THE BEST!! I was in this past sushi contest!
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