Japanese New Year Food
Japanese New Year Food is so Yummy!! New Year celebrations in Japan have typical dishes. Special Japanese desserts, unique Japanese cakes and a magical soup that helps you digest all that extra Traditional Japanese Foods. Read on as I introduce you to one of the most exciting Traditional Japanese Festivals.

Mochi – a Typical Japanese New Year Food
The Japanese family starts the day on New Year's with
Japanese Mochi
- a cake made from rice. This cake is a delicacy, don't miss the chance to taste it. It's not as sweet as the western desserts, but that's exactly the typical traditional Japanese foods. Never too sweet.
Mochi is also used to create a New Year's decoration called Kagami Mochi - Two round cakes of Mochi with a bitter orange placed on top. You can see a photo of it to your right. The round shape symbolizes fulfillment in the family. The stacking of the cakes one on top of the other symbolizes 'piling up' or adding another year to one's life. The decoration is offered to Buddha at the New Year. Because of it's extremely sticky texture, Mochi is responsible for a few choking deaths every New Year in Japan. So, beware!!
Some More Special Dishes For Japanese New Year

Another Typical New Year food in Tokyo is a soup called Ozôni. It's made from Miso, boiled seaweed, fish cakes, mashed sweet potato with chestnut and sweetened black soybeans. Osechi-Ryôri is another typical dish. There are many variations of Osechi, depending on the region of Japan you are visiting.
Very much like New year's or Christmas in other countries, it's very hard not to exaggerate with food during Japanese New Year. To let the overworked stomach rest, there's a special seven-herb rice soup, which is said to do wonders for the digestion on the seventh day of January.
If you liked this page, you might want to check out Japanese desserts, for lots more ideas and photos on Japanese cakes and Japanese sweets.
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