A catalog of recommended festival booths for school culture festivals, with ideas that will shine on social media.
Have you already decided what your class or club will do for your school’s cultural festival or school festival booth?
Even if you’re serving food, there are countless menu options, and if it’s not food, it can be hard to decide what to offer.
In this article, we’ll introduce a wide range of ideas: not only classic food and drink booths, but also interactive booths like games.
We’ve compiled everything from staple booths at cultural festivals to slightly unusual ideas, so be sure to use this as a reference!
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Yatai Menu (21–30)
cat rice
Neko-mamma offers endless variations with rice and any toppings.
Ume and bonito, salmon with butter, tuna mayo, and more—let’s develop delicious versions with your own ideas.
Using a frying pan to make a grilled neko-mamma could be a great option too.
Yatai Menu (31–40)
flowing somen (nagashi-somen)
Have you ever tried nagashi-somen (flowing somen noodles)? These days, you often see tabletop electric versions at variety shops.
But how about trying it the traditional way with real bamboo? All you need is bamboo to run the somen through, a hose or similar setup for running water, somen noodles, and a strainer—then you’re set! Split the bamboo lengthwise and sand the cut edges so no one gets hurt.
It could be fun to send not just somen but also fruit down the chute.
Watching the noodles flow by is sure to make everyone want to take a video!
doteyaki (beef tendon stew simmered in miso and mirin, an Osaka specialty)
Dote-yaki is a dish in which beef tendon and konnyaku are simmered slowly with miso and mirin.
If you prepare the ingredients and simmer them the day before, all you have to do on the day is serve it, so it’s relatively unlikely to get too busy even at a food stall.
I think customers will also find it easy to eat if you put the stewed ingredients into plastic containers or serve them on skewers like oden.
stew
When autumn arrives, you start craving warm foods, don’t you? Among them, cream stew is a favorite for everyone from kids to adults.
If you serve cream stew at a food stall, you can make it in advance and just heat it up after opening, which really cuts down on the work and should help things run smoothly during the school festival.
That aroma alone will make many people want a bowl, and offering bread as an optional side could boost sales even more.
Using cute paper cups would be a nice touch, too.
Pizza toast sandwich
It’s a sandwich-style snack you can make easily by sandwiching pizza toppings between two slices of bread and cutting them diagonally.
With a regular pizza you usually need a plate, which makes it hard to move around while eating, but with this you can stroll around and check out other shops as you eat, and there’s no trash—so it’s really convenient!
Taiwanese fried chicken
Taiwanese food has been gradually becoming a boom in Japan over the past few years.
From hearty rice dishes to sweets, everything looks delicious.
Among Taiwanese foods, the fried chicken really stands out and is a hot topic for being tasty.
In Taiwan it’s called “dàjī pái” and is a popular dish.
Its size is astonishing—bigger than your face—so it’s guaranteed to look great in photos! Aside from the size, the way it’s made isn’t much different from Japanese karaage; it just has a bit more spice.
Chinese-style rice porridge
With the growing number of health-conscious people in recent years, how about offering rice porridge? Gentle on the body and warming, rice porridge is excellent for preventing colds and can be prepared in advance.
It combines the benefits of both soups and rice dishes, so with a bit of creativity, it might even become a top seller.