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forever? So that I can eat good food? Maybe.

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12-29-2006
Osechi…YUK! No food for three days!

Filed Under (Japanese Culture, Living in Japan) by Mike

I’m getting ready for the worst part of the year in terms of food. The fact that it’s dead quiet is also a problem, BUT FOOD?! Come on! You can have my independance, freedom of speech, friends, variety, creativity, blood, BUT OSECHI!

For those who do not know. New Years is a time for family gathering. Making food for everyone and taking care of them at the same time is quite a task for mom to have so the country decided to give them a break by allowing them to make enough food for three days. Yes. You heard me right. Three days of leftovers. The meal box it’s put in has around three drawers of various salads. pickled vegetables, salted fish and other strange things that are cold and taste terrible with beer.

I’ve told my wife every year I don’t like Osechi so now she make only a small one. Tradition. Unfortunately, two of the three days we end up visiting friends and family who have Osechi.

January 2nd I get to go to Hotel Okura and eat expensive Yatai food (takoyaki, yakitori, okonomiyaki, sushi).

RUUUUUNNNN!!! Osechibake are coming.

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Freakshow on August 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

I hear you loud and clear. I love Japanese food in almost any incarnation: sea urchine, fish testicles, raw horse, whale…., but please no osechi. I guess maybe it’s cause I’m so hung over from too much sake, or more likely it’s such a let down from toshikoshi soba just before midnight.

Mike on August 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

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