With Mother’s Day fast approaching, there’s no better time to spoil Mum with some Japanese treats. More than 50,000 Australians have Japanese ancestry, and Japanese food plays a big role around the dinner table. It offers an abundance of gastronomical delights and an endless variety of regional and seasonal dishes. It pays great attention to fresh ingredients, gentle methods of cooking, authentic flavours and artful presentation. Of all the cuisines to be introduced to Australia, it has to be up there as one of the most loved and most unique.
If you’re looking for a special treat for Mum, you can’t go past a lunch or dinner at any one of the five Kobe Jones restaurants. Each venue boasts supreme location, views, food and service that will ensure Mum feels the love on her special day.
The Kobe Jones philosophy is that food should be easy to eat and always shared with family and friends. They specialise in ‘graze dining’ and share-style dishes, and believe that food offers an unrivalled bonding experience when enjoyed together. The food at Kobe Jones is the perfect blend of traditional Japanese and western cuisine and with six Mother’s Day menus to choose from, you’re guaranteed find a menu to tantalise your tastebuds.
Take Mum Out to Dinner
King Street Wharf
Kobe Jones at Sydney’s King Street Wharf is Japanese like you’ve never had it before. Offering stunning views over the harbour from indoors or an all-weather balcony, it’s one of the most renowned Japanese restaurants in Sydney. This year Kobe Jones Sydney is offering two Mother’s Day menus:
Ultimate Seafood Platter for 2 – a choice of hot or cold platter for two people. Hot delights include: panko scallop, parmesan motoyaki oyster, grilled half lobster with garlic seaweed, grilled Alaskan crab, Calamari fritto and grilled king prawns. Cold delights include: scallop sashimi, freshly shucked oyster, poached half lobster, Alaskan crab, fresh sashimi, king prawns and mussels.
Lobster and Moet Experience – For a minimum of three people. As you arrive, you’ll be served a delicious glass of Moet & Chandon Brut imperial NV before tucking in to a set menu designed to share. Dishes include: crab salad, lava roll, slipper lobster, tempura prawn, miso soup, lobster tail, chocolate cake and black sesame creme brulee.
Wharf Teppanyaki
Also at King Street Wharf is Sydney’s best teppanyaki experience, Wharf Teppanyaki. With 12 cooking stations, it offers seating for 46 people and the highly skilled staff promise an interactive, fun and tasty dining experience.
Wharf Teppanyaki menu – for a minimum of three people. Set menu includes: crab salad, sashimi and wafu oyster platter, tiger prawn and green lip mussel salad, Black angus striploin, garlic fried rice and red & white miso soup. All finished off with a freshly made Sapporo beer crepe.
The Rocks Teppanyaki
Built in the 1880s, this heritage listed building was formerly one of the oldest open air butchers in Sydney. Today it offers a sophisticated, interactive dining experience with five private teppanyaki rooms and an elegant cocktail bar.
The Rocks Teppanyaki menu – for a minimum of three people. Set menu includes: crab salad, sashimi and wafu oyster platter, tiger prawn and green lip mussel salad, Black angus striploin, garlic fried rice and red & white miso soup. All finished off with a freshly made Sapporo beer crepe.
WTC Wharf
For riverside dining at Melbourne’s ultimate meeting hub, Kobe Jones offers a truly unique experience right on the Yarra River. Enjoy a set menu in the main dining room or get interactive at one of the 19 cooking stations in Australia’s favourite teppanyaki restaurant.
Set menu – includes edamame, crab salad, a cold seafood platter, hot mushroom salad, lamb cutlets, miso marinated duck breast, miso soup and a delicious selection of dessert samplers.
Teppanyaki – Includes crab salad, hot mushroom salad, Atlantic salmon, king prawn, scallops, mussels, pippies, lemon sorbet (to cleanse the palate), miso marinated duck breast and a delicious dessert platter.
Head to this page to view the full menus or to book online.
Treats to Cook for Mum
Don’t have time to take Mum out for dinner? Or just want to extend the Japanese theme to a gift too? There’s plenty of ways to enjoy authentic Japanese in your very own kitchen. Make Mum some delicious (and easy) cookies, or pick her up a cookbook and let her do the cooking!
Green Tea Cookies
Ingredients
70g butter (room temperature)
½ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tbs milk
¾ cup cornstarch
¾ cup cake flour (or self-raising)
4 tsp green tea powder
white chocolate
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Sift cornstarch, flour and green tea together. Set aside.
- In a bowl, beat butter while gradually adding sugars.
- Add yolk and milk and mix well. Add flour and stir to combine.
- Rest dough in the fridge for an hour.
- Roll dough to ¼ inch thick and shape into cookies.
- Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes.
- Once cooled, drizzle with melted white chocolate.
Miso Cookies
Ingredients
2 tbsp Miso paste
115g butter (room temperature)
½ cup sugar
½ egg
1 ½ cup plain flour
½ tsp baking soda
raw sugar
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Beat Miso, butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and beat to combine.
- Mix in flour and baking soda to create a dough.
- Shape dough into two 2 inch round logs and roll in raw sugar. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for two hours.
- Slice the dough to create three dozen small cookies. Line on baking paper.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Great Japanese Cookbooks in English
The Just Bento Cookbook
by Makiko Itoh
Revolutionise Mum’s lunchbox with the world’s leading bento blogger and her healthy, economical and aesthetically astounding bento box meals. With more than 150 recipes and 25 bento menus, your mum will love getting creative in the kitchen.
The Japanese Kitchen
by Hiroko Shimbo
If Japanese cuisine still seems very new to Mum, this is the perfect introduction. Shimbo comprehensively describes the philosophy of Japanese cuisine and breaks it down beautifully, offering elegant and delicious dishes. If Mum’s just finding her love for Japanese food, this is the book for her.
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art
by Shizuo Tsuji
First published 25 years ago, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art was the cookbook that changed the world’s view of Japanese cuisine. This new, 25th Anniversary edition celebrates those original Tsuji classics, but now includes a thought-provoking new foreword by Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl, as well as a new preface from Tsuji’s son. Beautifully illustrated, this fabulous cookbook features over 500 drawings and 230 traditional recipes.
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