New Year In Japan! 🎍🗻🍶

Our New Year's celebration is bigger than Christmas in Japan.

31st December🍜🎤

We watch a traditional singing contest which is called a 'kouhaku singing contest'. This is one of the most famous contests between male and female popular singers and they compete to see which team amused the audience more. While we are watching this contest, we eat special noodles which are called 'toshikoshi soba'. We eat these noodles to live little, live long and live happily:) And then at midnight, the bells ring out the old year.

1st January🎍🗻🍶

On New Year's morning, we eat a traditional Japanese soup with rice cakes and some vegetables which is called Ozoni. It tastes different in each part of the region, for example, people from the east put in square shaped rice cakes and the soup is clear. On the other hand, people in the west put in circle shaped rice cakes and the soup tastes like miso.

After eating Ozoni, we go to a shrine to worship. Some people go to there wearing a kimono👘. Furthermore, we eat a traditional Japanese New Year's dish which is called Osechi-ryori and drink with family.

There are differences as to how to celebrate New Year in each family so this is the story that I know. I'll try to cook Ozoni and Osechi-ryori in London🍽️