NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Nishi-ku, Niigata City) and Nex-area Company Limited Niigata Branch (Chuo-ku, Niigata City) are targeting the service area (SA) in Niigata Prefecture with the "NEXCO EAST 5th New Menu Contest Niigata Block Preliminary Meeting". We will hold it, so let me know.

The chef of the restaurant (4 stores) in SA in Niigata Prefecture said, "I would like to provide a place for families with children to slowly eat and talk with parents during the trip. We hope that a menu that uses local ingredients, rather than just a "child lunch", will trigger "conversation" and "dandan" between parents and children. I will.

On the day of the event, we will compete for the purpose of exhibiting at the "NEXCO EAST 5th New Menu Contest" held in Tokyo, and after cooking, tasting and giving a presentation, we will select one from four works.

The four works that will be exhibited at this qualifying session will be on sale at each SA restaurant in Niigata Prefecture from March 2011, so please enjoy them.

1 Date and time

Friday, December 3, 2010, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm

2 venue

Niigata Cookery College (8-8 Higashiyuki-cho, Chuo-ku, Niigata City)

3 Content

The chefs of SA restaurants (4 stores) in Niigata prefecture will present their works and compete.

The best work from the Niigata block qualifying event will be exhibited at the finals held in Tokyo next March, and will compete with the works selected in other blocks to aim for the grand prix.

4 participants

Hokuriku Expressway Yoneyama SA (upper and lower lines), Kan-Etsu Expressway Echigo-Kawaguchi SA (upper and lower lines) Each tenant has 4 stores

5 For those who wish to interview

If you would like to collect information, please call the following inquiries in advance.

In addition, general visitors cannot enter this contest

Last year's Niigata block qualifying session [PDF: 79KB]

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Schedule of the day

10：30～11：00

Reception

11：00～11：30

Opening ceremony, introduction of judges, schedule explanation, preparation for cooking

11：30～12：10

Cooking (40 minutes) 1 set as sample and 7 sets for tasting

12：10～12：50

Tasting (40 minutes)

13：00～13：40

Presentation (10 minutes for each participant... 3 minutes for presentation, 7 minutes for Q&A)

13：40～14：00

Break, clean up

14：00～14：20

Examination meeting

14：20～14：50

Award Ceremony, General Evaluation (Chairman of the Jury), Closing Ceremony

[Chairman and Auditor] *Title omitted

[Profile of Yoshiharu Doi, Chairman of the Examination Committee]

Born in Osaka in 1957 as the second son of the late Mr. Masaru Doi, who was well-established as a home cooking expert. Trained French cuisine in Switzerland and France, and Japanese cuisine at Ajikichi in Osaka. In 1992, "Yoshiharu Doi Tasty Foods Research Institute was established. In addition to regular instructors and cooking instruction on TV programs and magazines, we are also engaged in restaurant system of restaurants and Japanese restaurants, product development, human resource development, etc. I am approaching "food" from various fields such as lecturers, cooking development guidance, and lectures.