Happy New Year!
I wish you good health and happiness.
新年快樂！
This is a set of new year sake (liquor) utensils. 這是一套吉祥酒器。
A set of three sake cups is a traditional lacquer ware.
New Year's sake is spiced with medical herbs. 正月喝屠蘇酒。這是在清酒裡放屠蘇散（各種藥草）的年酒。
These are traditional new year cuisines.
The left red bowl contains steamed shrimp dumpling. The right plate contains special cuisines such as sweet simmered black beans, seaweed rolls, mashed sweet potato with sweet chestnuts, sliced burdock root, sweet rolled omelet with fish paste, sweet small sardines, boiled fish paste, pickled white radish and carrot.
A pair of new year chopsticks is made of willow.
左碗裡有山藥蒸蝦米肉。右彩色瓷盤上有金栗子紅薯泥水，魚糕，魚肉雞蛋卷，黑豆，海帶卷。全都是吉祥菜。
Happy New Year, rtc! You really went all out to prepare the traditional celebration materials. All the dishes look so tasty--last night I was too tired to cook so just had boiled noodles for dinner, and I imagine I will have the same thing today.
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Everything looks delicious! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteSo beautifully styled and presented, You make everything look and sound amazing. . . . . and the gorgeous paper envelope with the new willow chopsticks is so enchanting! Thank you for sharing your New Year cuisines and serve ware.
ReplyDeleteBlessings for a safe, healthy and great year ahead.
Mary -
新年好！在朋友這裡分享了吉祥菜，謝謝款待(╯▽╰ )好香~~
ReplyDeleteDearest RTC,
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours.
When I was in Japan I firsthand got to admire all the meticulous details in presentation and food preparation.
My hosts, a Buddhist monk and his family, took me to a very special restaurant with authentic Japanese food. So I got to taste whale as one of the different things. Luckily I am quite good at eating with chopsticks, so I felt like a fish in the water.
It is a true art for feeding body and soul by the right presentation!
Hugs,
Mariette
I was very interested in your New year traditions, RTC. I used to think that sake cups are like glass shallow cups. You showed very nice sake set. The traditional food is excellent.
ReplyDeleteHappy new 2022 year!
新年快樂🎉
ReplyDelete吉祥酒器好靚！
Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2022 too.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year 🎊
ReplyDelete新 年 快 樂 ！
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the Japanese lacquerware utensils. They are beautiful! They are unbelievably thin!
But are they food safe?
URUSHI, the lacquer of IWATE ～The sacred land of Japanese lacquer, the forest where it all began～
https://youtu.be/xMjVBks9k8Y
好精緻的吉祥菜.新年快樂.
ReplyDeleteWonderful traditions. New Year's Blessings to you and yours- Diana
ReplyDeleteNice looking holiday ware. Good food that makes me hungry when I read it. Need to eat my breakfast soon. Have a safe, healthy and blessed 2022!
ReplyDeleteBecky
What a beautiful and very interesting post -- I learned a lot! A very happy, healthy, safe and joyful new year for you.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful repast, a wonderful post with great photos, and thank you so much :) I would also like to wish you A Very Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteA toast to the New Year! Stay safe and healthy.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year: What a very interesting post, I love hearing and reading about traditions, the food looks very yummy.
ReplyDeleteHappy new Year
Catherine
Wishing You all the best in 2022.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a wonderful 2022 too!
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. I've always wanted to learn to eat with chopsticks, but never quite got the hang of it. I'll keep trying. ; ) The place setting looks so elegant. Happy New Year.
ReplyDelete~Sheri
Wow!Amazing!I di understand why your people are so slim!Very healthy food!Looks so delicious all of it and beautifulplates,,love those plates.I have never tasted sake..A strong drink like The Aquevitt we have over here..I like very much to see your traditions and learn about your countries history..I admire your wisdom .I wish you a very nice ,good ,rich and healthy new year !May your dreams come true!
ReplyDeleteGreat wishes from working class hero Anita hih hih up here in Norway(First day free during christmas and new year celebrations)
This is so pretty,and very different from our celebrations. Here, we eat black eyed peas. But your celebration looks better!
ReplyDeleteIt gives me great pleasure that you come from Japan to wish me Happy New Year 2022.
ReplyDeleteI hope we keep in touch to share knowledge and experiences.
Greetings from Argentina
The utensils are very pretty, and the food sounds delicious. Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteVery nice photographs.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a Happy and Healthy 2022.
All the best Jan
I am very late wishing you a Happy New Year. I love reading about your customs.
ReplyDeleteFeliz Ano Novo, com saúde e prosperidade, para si e todos os seus, Roughterrain Crane! Peço desculpa pelo meu atraso em ter chegado aqui, bem depois do começo do ano... mas estes últimas semanas, têm sido complicadas, e o cansaço e o stress venceram-me durante alguns dias. Estamos com a pandemia em alta, mas consegui cumprir com o meu objetivo essencial... fazer com que a minha mãe chegasse a 2022, sem problemas de saúde.
ReplyDeleteEstimo que tenham passado esta quadra festiva, o melhor possível, por aí!
Adorei as imagens, que tão bem nos mostraram o que é tradicional, para brindar e celebrar esta data, e com uma primorosa apresentação!
Grata por esta partilha tão especial, e por nos ter acompanhado mais um ano... e que assim possamos prosseguir em 2022!
Um grande abraço! Feliz Ano Novo!
Ana
Ana
Happy New Year!
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