12 Restaurants Are Creating Slimy Specials for Next Week’s Natto Takeout Dine-Around
Everything from natto eggplant bolognese and natto oyako donburi to guava natto white chocolate chip cookies.
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Everything from natto eggplant bolognese and natto oyako donburi to guava natto white chocolate chip cookies.
Seven original comfort dishes with oishii slimy twists, and only one rule: You must love natto.
Natto lovers can-natto resist: 12 eateries are featuring 28 new natto creations this weekend.
Frolic’s annual celebration of Japan’s ripe, stinky bean is back—and it’s open to all natto lovers.
The Natto Day Dinner is sold out, but nat-to worry: You can still score original natto creations this Saturday and Sunday.
Honolulu’s annual tribute to Japan’s stinky bean is back—mark your calendars for Monday, July 10.
From Kalihi to Kāhala to Kāne‘ohe, a record 12 eateries will prepare one-day-only natto creations featuring Japan’s famously slimy bean.
We’re celebrating 10 years of Natto Day feasts in Hawai‘i with all kinds of savory, sweet, slime-licious creations.
We’re rounding up restaurants for a July 10 Natto Day takeout celebration—and one of them is up to you!
(Sponsored) Celebrate Natto Day, July 10, with special natto-themed takeout dishes from six local restaurants.
Just when it seemed all hope of Hawaii's annual midsummer Natto Day feast celebrating Japan's infamous stinky bean was lost, a text message saved the day. It was from Scott Pang and Greg Sekiya, creators of the local Facebook natto…
Update 9/26: Both Natto Feasts at Feast on Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28 are SOLD OUT. The thing about Jon Matsubara's food is everything has a story, and somewhere in the story there's a twist. Sometimes it starts…
Note: The July 10 natto dinner is sold out! So we've added an identical encore feast on Sunday, July 14, 2019. For tickets to More Summer Slime: 7/14 Natto Feast encore, order online at Eventbrite. There is slime, and there…
Note: The April 17 natto dinner sold out in record time. So we've added a second natto dinner with an identical menu at Zigu on TUESDAY, APRIL 23 at 6 p.m. Scroll down for the ticket link! Break out the…
Last Tuesday at Shokudo, in celebration of Japan's official Natto Day on July 10, natto fiends feasted on eight dishes dripping with the slimy fermented beans. Natto cheese and crackers. Natto gyoza. Natto dashimaki egg roll stuffed with unagi. Natto…
Get ready to twirl your chopsticks, natto lovers, Hawaii's annual midsummer Natto Day dinner is coming up — on July 10, the same auspicious day when natto-loving Japan celebrates the stinky-slimy fermented bean! This one is definitely natt-yo average feast.…
Note: This dinner is now sold out. Even with natto, Japan's famously slimy, stinky fermented bean, some things must be seen to be believed. Like bone-in beef burgundy simmered in a red wine-natto sauce. Or a play on crab rangoon,…
Natto fans, your time has come: the one night of the year when you can indulge your love of the slimy bean without getting stink eye.** On July 9, you’re invited to join fellow natto lovers at a Midsummer…
Update: The natto dinner is sold out. So natto, Japan’s famously stinky-slimy fermented beans, they get a bad rap. But here’s the thing: Natto can go haute. In fact, thanks to the fervent appetites of Hawaii’s natto worshippers, over the…
The smell hit you when you opened the door: a wave of ferment, a miasma of promise. Inside Tokkuri Tei on Kapahulu, over 100 people were scooping up natto lasagna, natto gazpacho, natto caprese salad with mozzarella cheese, natto cone…
I finally made it to the new Shirokiya Japan Village Walk, just to meet one of the owners of Tokyo Hot Dog, Akihiro Hironishi. Thomas and Maka already got a taste when they previewed the whole food court, but I wanted…
Dear Honolulu, Here’s an invite and a warning: The 5th annual Midsummer Natto Day Feast is coming, and you’re all invited! You’re invited, that is, if you love natto. Because the feast at Tokkuri Tei on Sunday, July 10 will…
All 32 pounds courtesy of Aloha Tofu, all non-GMO Full house for Sunday night’s Midsummer Natto Feast, now a four-year-old tradition in Honolulu. Thanks to the ravenous appetites of Hawaii’s Facebook natto lovers group, we’ve had izakaya-style natto, global natto,…
UPDATE: The July 12 natto feast is now sold out. One thing I’ve come to learn about Hawaii’s Facebook natto lovers group: They really love natto. This is a group who posts pictures of all the natto they eat: natto…