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Events across Gauteng

The chef comes to you

Not a tray dropped at the door. A Wa Zen chef sets up at your venue and cooks in front of your guests for the length of the function.

Four Wa Zen chefs behind a long table of sushi boats and chafing dishes
A Wa Zen chef making sushi at a kitchen island while a guest watches
A guest helping themselves to sushi from a bamboo boat

How it works

First time booking an event?

You don’t need to know what to ask for. Tell us roughly what you have in mind and Tony takes it from there, helping you shape the menu around your guests and the day.

  1. Build your quote

    Pick the experience, the date, the starting time and how many guests, and give the address. Add any extras and say if the food must be halal or vegan. The price shows as you go.

  2. Send it on WhatsApp

    It goes straight to Tony. You talk it through in that chat — the menu, the venue, the time — and he puts the final quote together.

  3. Confirm the booking

    Once you and Tony have agreed the menu and the price, your date is booked.

  4. Enjoy the day

    The chef arrives with everything, sets up, makes the food in front of your guests and cleans up afterwards.

Good to know

  • At least 12 guests (8 children for a kids' party). You can bring fewer; the quote is then priced at the minimum.
  • Halal or vegan? Choose it in the quote, and Tony plans the menu around it.
  • Dry ice is optional, at R350, but highly recommended: when the temperature rises, sushi can spoil.
  • Travel anywhere in Gauteng is R300. Display fridges and plates and bowls can be hired.

Choose the experience

A large bamboo sushi boat filled with rolls laid out in rings

Sushi Catering

R350 per person

min 12 guests

R350 per head, and a Wa Zen sushi chef comes to your house and makes the sushi there, in front of your guests, for the length of the function. Add starters, poke bowls, extra sashimi or drinks from the list, and anything from the sushi section of the menu.

  • Chef on site for the whole function
  • Sixteen ingredients included as standard
  • Everything rolled in front of your guests
  • Setup and clean-up handled

Extra options

  • Sushi display fridge hireR600
  • Spring rolls, chicken or vegR10 each
  • Tempura prawnsR25 each
  • Sushi plate & soy sauce bowl setR10 each
  • Extra salmon for sashimi — smallR800 each
  • Extra salmon for sashimi — mediumR1250 each
  • Extra salmon for sashimi — largeR1800 each
  • Dumplings, pork or beefR15 each
  • Chicken wingsR10 each
  • Sake, 2 litresR650 each
  • Tsingtao beer, one case of tinsR850 each
  • Poke bowl — salmonR200 each
  • Poke bowl — crabR150 each
  • Poke bowl — chickenR125 each
  • Dry iceR350

You can also add dishes from the menu, at the menu price plus R35 each: start the quote and tap “Add sushi from the menu”.

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Teppanyaki Catering

R400 per person

min 12 guests

The hot plate comes to you. Choose from Chicken Teriyaki, Beef Fillet Teriyaki and the Queen Prawn Platter, cooked in front of your guests and plated straight off the steel. The most theatrical thing Wa Zen does.

  • Chicken Teriyaki, Beef Fillet Teriyaki and Queen Prawn Platter
  • R400 per person, or R550 with the Queen Prawn Platter
  • Hot plate and chef on site
  • Cooked and served in front of guests
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Poke Bowl Catering

R350 per person

min 12 guests

The poke bowls from the Wa Zen menu, made fresh at your venue. Choose how many of each — salmon, tuna, prawn, crab, beef, chicken or tofu — and the chef makes them for your guests.

  • Any poke bowl from the menu, as many of each as you like
  • R350 per person
  • Tofu Poke Bowl for vegetarian guests
  • Works as a daytime or corporate option
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Ramen Catering

R350 per person

min 12 guests

The ramen from the Wa Zen menu, built to order at your event from broth the kitchen starts days ahead. Choose how many of each bowl. Unusual enough at a South African function to be the thing people remember.

  • Any ramen from the menu, as many of each as you like
  • R350 per person
  • Broth prepared over two days
  • Bowls built to order on site
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What it looks like on the day

A row of sushi boats, each with ginger and wasabi, on a party table
Sushi boats down a party table, each with its ginger and wasabi.
A chef finishing a sushi boat at a busy function
Finishing a boat at a busy function.
Hot dishes in chafing dishes: sweet and sour, skewers, dumplings and fried rice
Hot dishes kept warm beside the sushi.
A sushi boat with tempura prawns, spring rolls and gyoza on a dining table
A boat with tempura prawns, spring rolls and gyoza.
A sushi boat beside plates of spring rolls and gyoza
Spring rolls and gyoza alongside the boat.

Or let your guests do the rolling

The same chef, teaching instead of serving. Everyone makes their own, and eats it.

A group of adults rolling their own sushi at a long table
Sushi classes
Children rolling sushi with a Wa Zen chef at a garden party
Kids’ sushi parties