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June Event: Sake Brewery Tour

Communications
May 6, 2013
Events

JETAA Toronto is proud to announce the first event in this year’s Culture Series: Get Your Nihonshu On! An Educational Sake Tasting Tour at the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company on Saturday, June 1, 2013.

JETAA Toronto has reserved 2 private, expert-guided tasting tours at the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company. The tasting tour consists of an overview of the sake brewing process, raw materials and equipment, followed by a guided tasting of several of their freshly-brewed unpasteurized and pasteurized sakes. The tasting tour takes about 1 hour and includes a souvenir IZUMI sake tasting cup.

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Rock Climbing Event Report

Communications
May 5, 2013
Events

Smiling through an afternoon of verticality, JETAA Members and friends took to the walls and climbed and clawed their way to a fantastic time on Saturday, April 13, 2013. (more…)

Call For Volunteers: School Visit Program

Did you enjoy sharing Canadian culture with Japanese students? Would you like to share the awesomeness of Japanese culture with Canadian school children?

The Consulate General of Japan is looking for some volunteers to assist with occasional school visits over the next couple of months. (more…)

Call For Volunteers: 2013 JET Programme P-Dot

Thanks to everyone who responded to the PDOT call for volunteers thus far! We have more details about PDOT. Also, don’t forget that we’ll be holding a nijikai on the Saturday, more details tba.

Date: June 22-23

Location: Japan Foundation in Toronto.

Interested volunteers should email the Conference Coordinator at conference@staging.jetaatoronto.ca by May 31, 2013.
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Review: Santouka Ramen

In my pursuit to find tasty bowls of ramen in the Toronto food scene, I think back to when all that the city had was two out-of-the-way Ajisen Ramen joints. I celebrated when the third downtown location opened at Spadina and Dundas; even though it served just slightly above cup ramen quality noodles (no disrespect to cup ramen intended), it was Japanese ramen with similar ingredients as a Japanese salaryman might order and get in a similar-looking restaurant in Sapporo.

With that in mind, I had marked expectations for one of the newest ramen shops in town: Santouka Ramen, by the corner of Church and Dundas.

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