Enjoy the Lucky Food's for New Year in Japan

[Mels]

From All Recipes: (man I do miss Otoshidama!!)

Lucky Food in Japan
The Japanese celebrate the New Year in high fashion. The celebration lasts 3 days, beginning January 1st, and is celebrated with the unbending practice of EVERYONE getting a rest. Yes, in Japan even the cook of the house gets to kick back, relax and celebrate! The holiday is celebrated with fine foods, bonenkai 'year forgetting' parties, and visits to the Buddhist Temple to offer foods to the gods. The food for the entire 3-day holiday is prepared in advance so that the cook need only defrost, reheat or fry dishes to serve. Sounds good to us! Foods that are believed to be particularly auspicious are soba noodles which are especially long noodles that should be sucked up and eaten without breaking them to ensure long life, and mochi rice, which is a rice that is more sticky than ordinary rice and is pressed into cakes called omochi -- then it's either broiled or eaten in soup called Ozoni . Large omochi cakes are first offered to the gods, then cut into pieces and eaten by the family to bring the opportunity for luck and good health to every New Year's meal. Omochi cakes can be bought in Japanese grocery stores.

Soba with Toasted Sesame Seed Sauce
Broiled Mochi with Nori

Here is a link for other interesting New Year Lucky Food's from around the world..
http://allrecipes.com/advice/coll/all/articles/205P1.asp?adp=newyear

Signed Sasha

[cstaylor]

Lucky Food in Japan
The Japanese celebrate the New Year in high fashion. The celebration lasts 3 days, beginning January 1st, and is celebrated with the unbending practice of EVERYONE getting a rest.

Well, not everyone in the household... someone has to prepare and arrange all of that food.

The holiday is celebrated with fine foods, bonenkai 'year forgetting' parties

Those parties are before the new year.

and visits to the Buddhist Temple to offer foods to the gods.

I think you mean Shinto jinjas if we're talking about the new year.

You forgot ebi, hunched over like an elderly person, that signifies long life.

[Mels]

LOLOL Well, just thought I would post some food interest.

My grandmother and aunts use to prepare all the food. We would typically eat a lot of the the goodies on New Years day. They would be 3 to 4 stacks of special wooden boxes that contained all sorts of things to eat. They were prepared days in advanced and were served at room temp. Bamboo, kamaboko, special potatos (kind of slimy but delicious), different types of sweet bean, etc....We would eat soba at midnight as we listen to the Temple bells tolling.
We may have oshiruko or ozoni....which I still have while in California.

On the day of 1/1 , we would go to the Temple...my family is not buddist nor shinto, we just went because of tradition......brushing the incent smoke over us for good luck, buying the lucky charms for the car or to put in our wallets, tying fortunes (written on paper) on the branches of trees on the temple grounds. Was a cool experience for me.

Maybe the All Recipe wasnt exact, but ...enjoy. Thank you for clarification..being happa, I may miss on some things.
sasha

[Mels]

Also, it just shows how other countries tend to report inacurate information. They may get it partially correct, but certain points are missed.

I, still to this day, have people ask me if Japan has lifted the one child per family law???? LOLOL I can only look at them and wonder....and tell them it was China, not Japan.

sasha

[AssKissinger]

LOLOL Well, just thought I would post some food interest.

My grandmother and aunts use to prepare all the food. We would typically eat a lot of the the goodies on New Years day. They would be 3 to 4 stacks of special wooden boxes that contained all sorts of things to eat. They were prepared days in advanced and were served at room temp. Bamboo, kamaboko, special potatos (kind of slimy but delicious), different types of sweet bean, etc....We would eat soba at midnight as we listen to the Temple bells tolling.
We may have oshiruko or ozoni....which I still have while in California.

On the day of 1/1 , we would go to the Temple...my family is not buddist nor shinto, we just went because of tradition......brushing the incent smoke over us for good luck, buying the lucky charms for the car or to put in our wallets, tying fortunes (written on paper) on the branches of trees on the temple grounds. Was a cool experience for me.

Maybe the All Recipe wasnt exact, but ...enjoy. Thank you for clarification..being happa, I may miss on some things.
sasha

Hi Mels. That's a nice account of the grubs you ate . Welcome to FG.

[etto_neh]

"
I, still to this day, have people ask me if Japan has lifted the one child per family law???? LOLOL I can only look at them and wonder....and tell them it was China, not Japan.
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No kidding... A while ago (before I became fucked) a relative pulled me over and said something along the lines of 'while you're in Japan, ask about the laws concerning adoption'. I said, "Ummm, no. That's not Japan. Your chances of adopting a Japanese baby are about as probable as Nicole Kidman coming over here and puking directly into your anus. You're thinking 'Chaeeeenya'.