植虫飯天
'Pop-up' Insect Cuisine in Japan
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What is 'Pop-up' cuisine?
'Pop-up' restaurants, cafes and secret dinner parties have recently become popular in the UK as a way for people to experiment with and share innovative cuisine without the commitment and risk of large financial losses that come with starting up an actual restaurant or catering business. As such, it's a good opportunity to experiment with insect cuisine - exemplified in the UK by Eat Ento and Rentokil's 'pestaurant'.
What is '植虫飯天'?
'植虫飯天' is pronounced 'shoku-chuu-han-ten' and means, roughly, A heavenly food stall selling plants and insects - or something like that! We use locally grown organic vegetables and rice, and Japanese edible insects, to create simple dishes according to traditional recipes. Where possible we use vegetables and insects that we have cultivated or collected ourselves.
植虫飯天：Events so far
Food stall at 日天月天 cafe/gallery opening event, July 21st 2013 (Click here for PDF of menu)
Items for sale include three species of insect () cooked according to recipes from Thailand, South America, Mexico and China, as well as traditional Japanese 'tsukudani' (fried with sugar, soy cause and miring). To go with these we are also selling red shiso juice, side dishes of fresh spiced vegetables, vegetable pickles, homemade potato-aubergine-sesame bread and crackers, and locally grown brown rice balls.
Insect tasting party, July 18th, 2013 (Menu below)
The aim of the party was to showcase local food (e.g. Japanese insects) cooked according to international recipes. Dishes included Mayan wasp larvae dip, Chinese ginger silkworms and spicy Mexican chapulines (grasshoppers).
'Pop-up' restaurants, cafes and secret dinner parties have recently become popular in the UK as a way for people to experiment with and share innovative cuisine without the commitment and risk of large financial losses that come with starting up an actual restaurant or catering business. As such, it's a good opportunity to experiment with insect cuisine - exemplified in the UK by Eat Ento and Rentokil's 'pestaurant'.
What is '植虫飯天'?
'植虫飯天' is pronounced 'shoku-chuu-han-ten' and means, roughly, A heavenly food stall selling plants and insects - or something like that! We use locally grown organic vegetables and rice, and Japanese edible insects, to create simple dishes according to traditional recipes. Where possible we use vegetables and insects that we have cultivated or collected ourselves.
植虫飯天：Events so far
Food stall at 日天月天 cafe/gallery opening event, July 21st 2013 (Click here for PDF of menu)
Items for sale include three species of insect () cooked according to recipes from Thailand, South America, Mexico and China, as well as traditional Japanese 'tsukudani' (fried with sugar, soy cause and miring). To go with these we are also selling red shiso juice, side dishes of fresh spiced vegetables, vegetable pickles, homemade potato-aubergine-sesame bread and crackers, and locally grown brown rice balls.
Insect tasting party, July 18th, 2013 (Menu below)
The aim of the party was to showcase local food (e.g. Japanese insects) cooked according to international recipes. Dishes included Mayan wasp larvae dip, Chinese ginger silkworms and spicy Mexican chapulines (grasshoppers).
