Japanese meal prep, cooked in your London kitchen.
oishee is a meal prep service in London where the cooking happens at your counter. A Japanese chef comes to your home, batch cooks two or three dishes into eight to twelve portions, leaves them labelled in your fridge and washes up before they go.
A visit takes three or four hours and costs £100 to £170, travel included. That is between £9.58 and £18.13 a portion, depending on how many dishes you pick and who buys the ingredients.
Free to move or cancel up to 48 hours before. We confirm your chef within 24 hours.
A week of food, in a single visit
What you get, and what you don't have to do.
Most meal prep means you doing it: a Sunday afternoon, six containers and a sink full of pans. This is the same result without any of that. A chef who grew up cooking Japanese food handles the list, the shopping if you want them to, the prep, the cooking and the washing up, and leaves the week portioned and labelled in your fridge.
8 to 12 portions in one go
Two or three dishes, batch cooked and portioned into four servings each. About a week of lunches or dinners for one, or four days of dinners for two.
Cooked in your own kitchen
Your hob, your pans, your containers. Nothing arrives reheated from a central kitchen, unless you would rather we cooked at ours and delivered.
It keeps, and it freezes
Most dishes hold three to four days in the fridge and freeze well, so a single visit stretches further than a week if you want it to.
Real Japanese home cooking
Regional home dishes rather than restaurant plates, cooked by chefs who grew up making them.
What a week actually looks like
Every dish is cooked in four portions, so two dishes is eight and three is twelve.
Two dishes
8 portions
- Four portions of each dish, so you are not eating the same thing twice a day
- Lunch and dinner Monday to Thursday for one person
- Or dinner Monday to Thursday for two
- About three hours in your kitchen
Three dishes
12 portions
- Four portions of each, and the cheapest way we do it per portion
- Lunch and dinner most of the week for one person
- Or dinner most of the week for two
- About four hours in your kitchen
Most dishes keep three to four days in the fridge. Miso glazed salmon is best inside two to three because it is fish. If you are prepping for longer than that, freeze half on the day: Japanese curry and gyudon come back particularly well. Anything fried is better reheated in a hot dry pan or an air fryer than a microwave, which steams the panko. Every dish page says how that one keeps and reheats.
What meal prep costs
The only thing that changes the price is who buys the ingredients.
| Option | 2 dishes · 8 portions | 3 dishes · 12 portions |
|---|---|---|
| Fully hands-offMost popularWe buy everything, pantry and fresh | £140£17.50 a portion | £165£13.75 a portion |
| HybridWe bring the Japanese pantry, you buy the fresh | £120£15.00 a portion | £135£11.25 a portion |
| You shopWe send the list, you buy everything | £100£12.50 a portion | £115£9.58 a portion |
| DeliveredCooked at ours, delivered in our containers | £145£18.13 a portion | £170£14.17 a portion |
On you shop and hybrid you buy the fresh ingredients from a list we send you, so those per-portion figures are the chef rather than the food. On fully hands-off and delivered everything is included. Packs bring it down: 5% off for 4 visits, 10% off for 8. Full prices, discounts and payment terms.
Two minutes to book.
Pick two or three dishes and a date, and we confirm your chef within 24 hours.
What actually happens on the day
Four steps, start to finish. The longer version.
Pick your dishes
Two or three from the menu, a date and a start time. You also choose who buys the ingredients, which is the only thing that changes the price.
Get containers ready
Four to six decent-sized containers covers a full visit. It is the only thing we ask you to sort beforehand, and not at all if we are delivering.
The chef batch cooks
Three or four hours working through the dishes, portioning everything out and washing up. You let them in and get on with your day.
Eat through the week
Fridge for the next few days, freezer for the rest. No shopping, no cooking, no deciding, no washing up.
How it compares
The four other ways Londoners solve the same problem.
| Option | Who cooks | Your effort | What you get | What you give up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| oishee meal prep | A Japanese chef, in your kitchen | None. They shop, cook, portion and wash up | 8 to 12 portions a visit | Having someone in your kitchen for a few hours |
| Meal prep delivery boxes | A central kitchen, days earlier | None, but you are on a subscription | Usually sold per meal, per week | Choice, and food cooked the same day |
| Meal kit boxes | You, from a recipe card | Around half an hour of cooking per meal | One meal per kit | The whole point of meal prep, which is not cooking |
| Takeaway | A restaurant kitchen | Ordering and waiting | One meal | Portion control, and the price adds up fast |
| Supermarket ready meals | A factory, weeks earlier | Reheating | One meal | Almost everything |
The honest summary: a delivery box is cheaper per meal and needs nothing from you, and if that suits you it is a good answer. We are for people who want food cooked fresh in their own kitchen, in portions that last, by someone who knows the cuisine.
Who cooks it
You are letting someone into your home, so this part is not left loose.
Every oishee chef is Japanese and learned these dishes in a family kitchen rather than a restaurant one, in the part of Japan they grew up in. If you want the chef side of this rather than the food side, read about hiring a Japanese private chef in London, or meet the chefs cooking for us now.
Interviewed in person
We meet every chef before they cook for anyone.
Level 2 Food Hygiene
Every oishee chef holds a current certificate.
Travel included
Wherever we cook in London, at no extra charge.
Free changes
Move or cancel a visit up to 48 hours before, at no cost.
What people say after a visit
Two of the notes we have had back.
It was excellent. Maiko was a brilliant and skilled home cook. The food is delicious and the kitchen was left very clean and tidy afterwards. I would love to re-use the service.Usman, Finsbury ParkCooked by Maiko
Ayako was excellent and we really enjoyed the experience! The meals were so tasty and special. We will definitely look to use this service again and highly recommend it to others.Darragh, WalthamstowCooked by Ayako
The full menu
Back to all eight dishes
Where we meal prep
We cook across most of London, and travel is always included.
We cook just outside these areas more often than not, and we add new ones as we bring on more chefs. See every area we cover, or put your postcode into the booking form and know in one click.
One afternoon. A week of dinners.
Japanese meal prep across London from £100 a visit. Tell us your dishes and we will confirm your chef within 24 hours.