About Me

こんにちわ！

Welcome to my vegan cooking blog. My name is Miiya, and I’m passionate about creating delicious, plant-based meals that are beautiful to look at and easy to recreate.

I am Japanese-British, and my love for food began in my childhood. Being brought up in Japan, not only was there an array of Japanese foods, but to me, Tokyo felt like the epicentre of all delicious cuisines, and I was introduced to mouth-watering flavours from a very young age. My mother is also an astonishing cook, so she taught me to love cooking.

Throughout my teenage years, I would cook bentos for my brother and myself, and I was inspired by ‘kyara-ben’ (character bento boxes) which were a hit amongst my classmates; creating aesthetically pleasing meals were what I enjoyed making most. I moved to London in my early 20s for university, and as I was now living alone and had to make all my meals, I became more and more fascinated with creating recipes. That was when I first launched Flora’s Fodder on Instagram. In the mid-2010s, photos of colourful plant-based meals were beginning to circulate on social media, and I was especially drawn to plates that incorporated flowers. I decided to adopt that style for my own meals.

I started out as an actor and musician, and have been in productions in the West End and UK/International tours since graduating in 2017, but when the pandemic hit, I found myself jobless, wait no, funemployed! So, I retreated to my mountainous home in Yatsugatake, which is about a two hour drive from central Tokyo, and I spent the year getting my hands sticky in sourdough, foraging for mountain vegetables, fermenting vegan cheese and turning my hobby into a prospective profession.

So if you’re looking to learn how to make delicious, easy to recreate plant-based meals with a Japanese twist, then look no further!