Happy New Year 2012

Posted January 2nd, 2012 in Japan No Comments »

Happy New Year!

It was a sunny new year’s day yesterday. My mum came over, and we stayed home eating all day on the 1st Jan.

We grilled mochi (rice cakes) on the stove.

Mochi was little burnt, but it was delicious. This is zenzai (azuki bean soup with rice cake).

We had sukiyaki, funa-no-nitsuke, zenzai and seasoned rice in the morning! Oh, plus red wine (not me though).

Funa is a fish which lives in Biwa lake. It has distinguished taste, texture, and smell. Its eggs are delicious 🙂 I’ve been eating this since I was a child, but I guess it’s what only Shiga people do.

On the 2nd, we went to hatsumode (first visit to shrine to celebrate the new year). We thought there’d be many people on the 1st, and wanted to avoid all the crowd.

We prayed, and bought taiyaki, okonomiyaki, takoyaki & mochi from food stalls outside. It was our lunch.