OKAWARICONNECTICUT · SMALL BATCH

OKAWARI

LOCAL HANDS. RESTAURANT KITCHENS.

You’ll want
SECONDS.

Small-batch napa cabbage kimchi.
Made in Connecticut. Ready for your menu.

Taste the crunch. Get to know the ferment.
Then make it your own.

Order for your kitchen

$40 / 3.5 lb bucket · delivery included

White-gloved hands mixing glossy red-orange napa cabbage kimchi in a ceramic bowl
Small batches. Big possibilities.
MADE IN CONNECTICUTNATURALLY FERMENTEDSTANDARD + VEGANSERVED AT WASAN, BROOKLYN

01 / THE DIFFERENCE

A little more care.
A lot to work with.

A piece of seasoned napa cabbage held above a bowl of kimchi, showing its white rib and layered leaf
01

The crunch starts
with the cabbage.

We don’t squeeze the cabbage. That’s how we preserve its crisp texture. Try your sample straight from the container and feel the difference for yourself.

02

Small batches.
Close attention.

Made in a licensed commercial kitchen in New Haven, Connecticut. Every batch is weighed, pH-checked and logged.

03

Cabbage takes
center stage.

Napa cabbage and garlic chives are the main vegetables. No extra vegetables to bulk it up. Naturally fermented, with ingredients you’d recognize in a kitchen.

02 / YOUR SAMPLE, YOUR CALL

Taste it TWICE.

One ingredient. A flavor that keeps moving.
Try it today, then again a few days later.

Fresh kimchi in a cream ceramic bowl
FRESH

FIRST TASTE

Light.
A little sweet.

Start with a piece on its own. Notice the cabbage, the seasoning and the crunch. Then try it alongside something from your kitchen.

Kimchi in a cream ceramic bowl illustrating the second tasting
TANGIER

A FEW DAYS LATER

Another
possibility.

As fermentation continues, the acidity develops. Taste it again and decide how you’d use that changing flavor on your menu.

Keep refrigerated between tastings. Fermentation develops at its own pace.

03 / ON YOUR MENU

Your kitchen.
Your next dish.

Start with a familiar preparation.
Let the kimchi bring something new.

Pork + kimchi stir-fry

Try the fresh kimchi, then repeat with a tangier batch.

Kimchi fried rice + cheese

A second way to explore the same ingredient. Both dishes work with it fresh or soured.

A white bulk bucket of napa cabbage kimchi alongside napa cabbage and garlic chives
3.5 lb / 1.58 kg bulk buckets for restaurant kitchens.

04 / WHY “OKAWARI”?

One more,
please.

A name that came
from the table.

At Wasan in Brooklyn, two guests tried a kimchi stir-fry made with it and asked for seconds at the same moment.

The owner-chef started using it after one taste. Two staff members ordered buckets for themselves. We still deliver to Wasan.

“Okawari” is Japanese for
“one more, please.”

Original OKAWARI manga and story: a chef says ‘This is art. I’m using it.’ Two guests taste kimchi, then ask ‘Okawari! One more, please!’ Two staff members hug their own buckets. The caption explains the true naming story at Wasan in Brooklyn.

05 / BRING IT TO YOUR KITCHEN

Start with
one bucket.

$40 · 3.5 lb / 1.58 kg
Local delivery included. 1–10 buckets per order.

THE ORIGINAL RECIPE

Standard

Napa cabbage kimchi with fish sauce and anchovy powder.

Contains fish (anchovy).

Order Standard

A PLANT-BASED OPTION

Vegan

The same recipe, with tamari in place of fish sauce and anchovy powder.

Contains soy (tamari).

Order Vegan

Want both? Place one order for each.

ORDER BY WEDNESDAY

At your kitchen
that weekend.

Order by 11:59 PM Wednesday. Choose Saturday or Sunday delivery at checkout. Orders after the cutoff go with the following week’s delivery.

Delivery area: Fairfield, Westport, Norwalk, Milford, Trumbull and Shelton, CT.

Ingredients & allergens

Standard

Napa Cabbage, Sea Salt, Chinese Chive, Organic Onion, Chili Pepper, Water, Organic Fuji Apple, Organic Cane Sugar, Fish Sauce (Anchovy, Salt, Sugar), Organic White Rice Flour, Organic Ginger, Organic Garlic, Anchovy Powder, Mushroom Powder, Kelp Powder.

Contains: Fish (Anchovy). No additives.

Vegan

The same recipe, with Tamari Soy Sauce (Water, Organic Soybeans, Salt, Organic Alcohol) in place of fish sauce and anchovy powder.

Contains: Soy (Tamari).

Storage & production

Keep refrigerated. Best within about a month of delivery.

Made in small batches in a licensed commercial kitchen in New Haven, under Connecticut food manufacturing license FME.1468. Every batch is weighed, pH-checked and logged.

How to order
  1. Choose Standard or Vegan, then select 1–10 buckets.
  2. At checkout, enter your delivery address and phone number, select Saturday or Sunday, and pay.
  3. Order by Wednesday’s cutoff for delivery that weekend.

Questions? info@inawaratei.com

$40 / 3.5 lbOrder for your kitchen