Après, il y a osechi. Osechi est un plat, où les plats, ils mangeant tout les 3 jours fériés du Nouvel An, et ils les servent dans le jūbako, une boîte laque avec trois niveaux. Tout les plats sont bons pour la santée, ils peuvent restent à température ambiante, et ils ont chacun leur propre signification.
Je peux mange et mange et mange–c'est trop bon! La cuisine du Nouvel An finit pas le premier Janvier, pas le 3 Janvier, mais le 7 Janvier, avec nana-kusa-gayu, ou porridge au riz avec les sept herbes du printemps pour reposer le ventre et pour tourner les pensées à l'année venir.
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I wish you a belated Happy New Year!
2016 was a busy year–I graduated in May, was an English tutor in France for the summer pour a boy in an incredibly good family in a charming village. On top of that, I was able to travel in Italy and France with my sister, and in August I started working in Japan, living with yet another wonderful host family near my sister and grandmother. God has been so good to me, and I thank Him! I wish you the same blessings in 2017.
In Japan, New Year's is the most important holiday of the year. My sister and I spent December 31 and January 1 in Tokyo at our grandma's. Baba is 94 years old but still vivacious!
According to tradition, Japanese watch the annual music show, Kouhaku, and eat toshikoshi soba at midnight December 31. The name translates roughly to "year-crossing noodles," meaning the new year comes while you eat it. Then, January 1st for breakfast they eat ozoni, a soybean soup with mochi rice cake.
Next, there's osechi. Osechi is a dish, or a collection of dishes they graze on for the 3 days of the New Year. They serve it in a three-tiered lacquer jūbako. Each dish is healthy, can be kept out at room temperature, and each dish has a special meaning.
I could eat and eat–it's so good! The New Year's cuisine doesn't come to an end January first, nor January 3rd, but January 7th, with nana-kusa-gayu, or rice porridge with the seven spring greens, which serve to give people's stomachs a rest and turn their thoughts toward the year to come.
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