New Bilateral Communications Between Thailand and Japan!
Thai Cuisine Japan represents an approach to regional development. Thai cuisine is the vehicle that joins “Local Japan” & “Local Thailand,” for a new perspective in creating markets and promoting direct exchanges.
By using “cuisine” as the common language to showcase the different cultures of Japan and Thailand, this new value proposition can drive an untapped forum for cross-cultural communication.
We also support business and community activities for companies involved with Thailand. We want Japan and Thailand to learn much, much more about each other, through innovative concepts and forums.
“The Land of Smiles” and “The Land of Hospitality”
The spirit of hospitality pervades the dining business
While working as an interior designer, I grew increasingly concerned about the frontline, the storefront. The encounters during a chance-visit to Thailand brought me close to the people. I had the opportunity to re-think my world and my life. That visit marks the origin of this activity. Upon returing to Japan, I went to work at a Thai restaurant, and experienced the appeal of the hospitality business and the thrill of hard teamwork. After three years, I began work to launch not just the “box,” but operate the sites where people socialized. My feelings to activate the outlying parts of sparser, less energetic Japan grew stronger through my work around the country. The source of inspiration for this brief arises from a desire to take my urban experience and to return something to Thailand and outlying Japan, in the form of tangible, meaningful content.
47Prefectures Encounter Thailand!
Collaboration of Specialty Products, Local Ingredients, Thai Food Providing Opportunity for Easy and Enjoyable Access to Thai Cuisine
Cuisine: Comprehensible Across Borders Complexed Business Development Through
Mutual Culinary Exchange
About Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN
Name | Non-profit Organization Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN |
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Head office | 3F, Shinagawa Center bldg. 3-23-17 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
Director | Seiji Nishida |
Established | April, 2nd 2012 (Established as an organization in June 2010) |
Outline | We non-profit organization “Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN” offer a local-area activating project through “Food” by developing original Thai food recipes with local fresh ingredients from all over Japan’s 47 prefectures, and showing how to take advantages of them. Our new international cultural exchange programs based on food events will promote Thai-Japan’s local interactions and create new markets. |
Activities | The food producers’ movement into our project is now expanding throughout the nation; stimulate local food market by original Thai food recipes using regional fresh ingredients and develop overseas market around Asia area focused on Thailand. |
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Basic Information
Membership benefits |
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Enrollement, participation fee |
– Regular membership a person, a producer, or an organization who agree the purpose of our activities and promote the business. – Enrollment fee 1,000 yen / person, annual fee 3,000 yen / person – Support menbership a person, a producer, or an organization who agree the purpose of our activities and support the business. – Enrollment fee 1,000 yen / person, annual fee 3,000 yen / person – Enrollment fee 15,000 yen / organization, annual fee 35,000 yen / organization – Yum! Yam! Ambassador is a organization related to personal / group local food activities and registered by each company / organization. The terms of condition is to agree the purpose of Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN’s activities and to understand how to cook Thai food and the difference of tastes by regions. Those who have wide knowledge and networks for regional food, and are able to report their activities and future plans, are suitable for it. |
Mission
This organization, as for all people, aims to promote revitalization activities of local communities and international cultural exchanges through the Thai Food “local Japan (47 prefectures) × local Thailand (77 provinces).” We’ve planned 47 continuous events, “ Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN” for the first time in Japan (in the world?), which offer original Thai recipes using local fresh ingredients from Japan’s 47 prefectures. In addition, spreading Thai food in Japan more and creating the way to take advantage of local products by developing original Thai menus will lead the stimulation of Thai & Japan’s interactions through food, and we believe that we can make undeveloped markets visible in the future. We would like to provide an oppoturnity to think and raise awareness on food, wishing every participant’s happiness with delicious dishes and healthy living through these Asian food exhanges. Rather than the perspectives of enthusiasts of Thai food, we create wider connection between two nations that matched this generation, appreciate the relationship having the same rice oriented culture, and develop together through food.
- Promotion activities for the understandings of Thai & Japan’s food culture
- Revitalization of local community through food, activities related to international cultural exchanges
- Promotion activities on food education
- Activities for spreading and exchanging agricultural technology
- Educational activities for children’s understandings on food
- Operation, contact management, advices and supports of the organization for the above activities
Approval & awards
Official support by Commercial Counselor, Embassy of Thailand
Official support by Tourism Authority of Thailand
Approved as a local job creation business by Cabinet (Joined iSB Public Future Course, 2011)
Products & services
Events:Yum! Yam! SOUL SOUP KITCHEN(For metropolitan / local)
EC Sites:Yum! Yam! MARKET(Under preparation)
Branding design & Food products produce