Category: Everyday Life

It seems a bit late…

We don’t have a special New Year’s meal.
Chris’ family doesn’t have a special New Year’s dish, so we just imitate the dishes I ate at my family’s house.
We eat zenzai (rice cakes in sweet red bean soup) and grilled sardines.
However, we can’t find fresh sardines near our home, so we always buy dried ones.
It doesn’t sound like we’re serious enough about the sardines, but we don’t see any fresh ones around here, so we don’t have any other way!

By the way, I hear that Fukuoka people use katsuo-na (a leafy green vegetable) and yellowtail for their special New Year’s soup with rice cakes called o-zôni. (I don’t know so much about it, so I can’t tell exactly. And I also don’t know what kind of o-zôni my hometown people usually eat for New Year’s day. The topic didn’t come up when I was a child.)

Then, our supper that evening was also not so serious. We just ate a meal that looked a little more celebratory than usual.

– YS, 5 January 2008

5 January 2008