Zoni Soup on New Years
Written by Jeshii on 2008.12.31 – 14:00 -
Happy New Year everyone! While you are enjoying 紅白 (Kouhaku), I hope you are also eating お雑煮 (ozouni)! In fact, I bet I can predict the shape of the mochi and the broth of the soup you are eating… if you are in Japan that is.
What in the Sam Hill am I talking about? Well, depending on what part of Japan you are in, there is a statistical probability as to how your mochi is cut and what soup broth you have in your お雑煮. Yessir, there is even a line where people have round mochi on the one side and cut square mochi on the other.
関ヶ原 (Sekigahara) is the location of the decisive battle between East and West Japan that lead to the 250+ year 江戸時代 (Edo Jidai). This lies on the line! Also, people in East Japan and West Japan stand on different sides of escalators. There’s a lot of differences between east and west Japan that seem to lie on this line. I’ll leave a more complete list for another entry.
If you want to make お雑煮 for yourself, you still have some time! Go check out Cookpad and get cooking!
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