Nakayoshi Young Professionals – July 2012 Monthly Newsletter
July 2012 Key points of this newsletter: – BBQ Highlight - Upcoming Events – Events Next MonthFor the latest event updates, please check our event page at www.nakayoshi.org/events! Nakayoshi Annual Welcome BBQ (Sun 7/1/12) Thank you all for coming! 🙂 Photo credit: Jason Nou For more BBQ event photos, click here [[Upcoming Nakayoshi Events]]Sat 7/22 – Volunteering Event: […]
Soy and Tofu Fest Food Booth
On June 2nd, Nakayoshi members headed their very own food booth at the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival. We were the only food booth with ALL proceeds going back to the Nichi Bei Foundation, which puts on the Tofu Fest to help fund their non-profit newspaper publication. Nakayoshi members have become gooood chefs. Look […]
Social Event: NightLife @ California Academy of Sciences
Join Nakayoshi at the NightLife @ California Academy of Sciences on Thursday, June 7th! Let’s go through the exhibitions together while sipping on wine, munching on food, and listening to pronto music 🙂 [Meet-Up] We will meet at 5:30pm at the red, vertical Academy of Science sign in the front and head to the line […]
Soy and Tofu Festival VIP Reception
In May, a group of great Nakayoshi volunteers helped to prep and facilitate the VIP Reception for the Nichi Bei Foundation’s Soy and Tofu Festival. The event was well attended and enjoyed, with Nakayoshi volunteers receiving a huge thank-you for making tons of delicious food and keeping the entire event running smoothly. The food prep […]
May Volunteer: Soy and Tofu Fest VIP Reception
The 3rd Annual Soy and Tofu Festival, put on to benefit the Nichi Bei Foundation, is in need of your help! We are looking for volunteers to help prepare appetizers at Nakayoshi super-chef Graig Inaba’s house, and then help run the VIPÂ Reception at Berkeley Bowl. Not only will the VIP Reception feature entertainment, a cooking […]
Volunteer Event: JCCCNC Kodomo No Hi Spam Musubi
Come help us make all the spam musubi at the JCCCNC and sell it at the festival booth! Nakayoshi will be operating the spam musubi booth at the annual Kodomo No Hi (Children’s Day) Festival in SF Japantown on Saturday, May 5th, 2011. All proceeds will be donated to the Japanese Cultural and Community Center […]
Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition
Hello Nakayoshi folks! This is Arisa, one of your core members, asking you to please enter the 2012 Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition. I am the Competition Chairperson this year and let me tell you… your chances of winning are quite good 😉 The rules are straight forward: make a dessert using some kind of […]
Cherry Blossom Queen Program 2012
Last Saturday, some hard working Nakayoshi members volunteered at the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program’s Program Night, where the new 2012 Court was crowned. The Queen Program committee looks to Nakayoshi every year for solid and reliable volunteers, and they certainly did not disappoint by helping to set-up, usher in guests and tear down the […]
Nakayoshi Event Featured in the Nichi Bei Times
Hey folks, In addition to the photos on Facebook, you can also catch the highlights of last Sunday’s BBQ in this week’s Nichi Bei Times. The online version is not up just yet, but the print copy is out today. Speaking of Nichi Bei, the newspaper is holding a manga drawing contest, with a deadline […]
Adventures in Golden Gate Park
Thank you to everyone who came out to our BBQ yesterday! It was really great to meeting all of you, and we really do appreciate you coming out the park. We hope you all enjoyed the awesome food (and even better company). Hopefully, we’ll see some of you at our next meeting: SUNDAY, JULY 13TH […]