Workshops

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025

Time: 9:00AM to 11:15AM PST

Location: Zoom link will be provided after sign-up, along with recipes, ingredient list, and instructions, so you can do some prepping in advance.

On the menu:

I will show you how to make homemade soba from scratch. You can purchase ingredients on your own or buy my custom cooking kit curated for this workshop.

Please order your kits by October 9, 2025 to allow enough delivery time for the kit to arrive before the workshop.

• Soba served with Grilled Chicken, Chives, and a 7-Minute Egg

• Vegan option available: Baby Bok Choy, Mushrooms, and Chives

• Roasted Kabocha and Seasonal Vegetables with Okaka sauce from my cookbook Wafu Cooking

Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025

Time: 10:00AM to 2:00PM PST

Location: Provided upon enrollment.

Join me for my Late Summer Workshop - Season 1 of my new series of restoration and preservation workshops I will be offering.

Learn to mend and extend the life of your clothing and accessories in this workshop, where we’ll be covering a variety of mending and darning* techniques. Combine and experiment using just a handful of simple stitches: running, spaced back, seed, whip, and buttonhole stitches. You can bring your own item to repair or just practice using provided scraps. A homemade Yakuzen Curry lunch by Sonoko will be served following the workshop.

*Darning is a method of mending where you weave new threads over a damaged area of fabric. Depending on the fabric and thread, it can be near invisible, or you can use contrasting colors and textures to repair and accent instead.

please bring

• Something to mend* 

• If you prefer, your own sewing supplies

*Knitted or woven textiles with holes, thinning areas, or stains. Light- and medium-weight fabrics are recommended for this workshop

shared workshop materials

• assorted threads and yarns

• scrap fabric

• sewing needles

• needle threaders

• darning dishes and rubber bands

• thread snips/embroidery scissors

• reference books for inspiration

available for purchase

Sonoko will have her pantry products, including homemade miso, pickles, and shrub drink, available for sale.

Patched mending wallet / $100

Made from silk and cotton scraps. Includes:

• assorted needles

• glass head pins

• needle threader (flat type)

• needle threader (wire type)

• Italian embroidery scissors

• choice of 5 threads

Tommy will have 15 sewing kits.

About Tommy Huang

Tommy Huang is an artist and designer who works primarily with ceramics and textiles. He’s inspired by traditions of handwork, especially the kinds of making that value resourcefulness—mending, reusing, and working with what’s on hand. Whether in clay or in fabric, he practices those ideas by arranging, layering, and piecing things together like a puzzle, reusing scraps and offcuts in the process. It’s about making sure nothing goes to waste, and in the process finding beauty in what might ordinarily be discarded. He has previously collaborated with dosa, Green Dragon Office, and Frere-Jones Type.

Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025

Time: 9:00AM to 11:30AM PST

Location: Zoom link will be provided after sign-up, along with recipes, ingredient list, and instructions, so you can do some prepping in advance.

Workshop Description:

Join me and my professional pastry chef sister, Fuyuko, for a hands-on workshop featuring my award-winning Wafu Miso Fruit Pie recipe, featured in my latest cookbook Wafu Cooking.

As children, we would wake to the irresistible aroma of our mother's apple slab pies in the middle of the night. After our mother passed away, we recreated her recipe with a Japanese twist, adding my homemade miso to the filling—a "hidden ingredient" that won second place in the KCRW pie contest.

Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop where you'll learn to make a flaky, tender crust, prepare a seasonal nectarine fruit filling enhanced with handcrafted miso, and master the techniques that bring these elements together. We will demonstrate how small adjustments in technique and flavor can elevate familiar recipes into something memorable.

You'll leave with not only a delicious pie but also a deeper understanding of how traditional Japanese ingredients can transform Western classics.

Date: Sunday, August 24, 2025

Time: 11:00AM to 12:15PM PST

Location: Zoom link will be provided after sign-up, along with recipes, ingredient list, and instructions, so you can do some prepping in advance.

On the menu:

Play with your food! I’ll teach you how to make tasty and fun onigiri with different fillings and fun decorations. Fun for any member of the family. Invite some friends to join you on your link and turn it into a tasty onigiri-making party!

You can purchase ingredients on your own or buy my custom cooking kit curated for this workshop. Please order your kits by 7-10 business days before the workshop date to allow enough delivery time for the kit to arrive on time.

Photo credit: Molly De Coudreaux

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025

Time: 10:00AM to 12:00PM PST

Location: Zoom link will be provided after sign-up, along with recipes, ingredient list, and instructions, so you can do some prepping in advance.

On the menu:

I will show you how to make homemade soba from scratch. You can purchase ingredients on your own or buy my custom cooking kit curated for this workshop. Please order your kits by July 8, 2025 to allow enough delivery time for the kit to arrive before the workshop.

• 🍜 Soba with Dipping Sauce

• 🥚 Tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelette): You can use any nonstick pan to cook this, but for those who are interested in purchasing a Japanese tamagoyaki pan, I recommend this one from Hitachiya USA.

Date: Friday, August 1, 2025

Time: 10:00AM to 12:00PM PST

Location: Zoom link will be provided after sign-up, along with recipes, ingredient list, and instructions, so you can do some prepping in advance.

On the menu:

I will show you how to make homemade soba from scratch. You can purchase ingredients on your own or buy my custom cooking kit curated for this workshop. Please order your kits by July 8, 2025 to allow enough delivery time for the kit to arrive before the workshop.

• 🍜 Soba with Dipping Sauce

• 🥚 Tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelette): You can use any nonstick pan to cook this, but for those who are interested in purchasing a Japanese tamagoyaki pan, I recommend this one from Hitachiya USA.