Tofugu» mochi http://www.tofugu.com A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:42:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 Mochi Soup and New Years! http://www.tofugu.com/2010/01/03/mochi-soup-and-new-years/ http://www.tofugu.com/2010/01/03/mochi-soup-and-new-years/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:38:42 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=2117 I know it’s a couple days late, but to usher in the new year, I thought I’d make some mochi soup and sing you a New Years song! Mochi soup (ozoni | お雑煮) is eaten mostly during the New Years, though apparently it used to be more of a Samurai-only cuisine, cooked up on the battlefield. The version I made would have to be for a pretty poor samurai, because all it consisted of was bonito soup-base, shoyu (soy sauce), and mochi. Wasn’t all that bad, though.

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The crazy thing about Mochi soup is that every year 5-10 people die from choking deaths. What a terrible way to go. You’re ushering in the New Year, ready for all the cool things it will bring, and you start it off by dying a completely avoidable death. I guess you can’t live if you don’t take some chances.

Anyways, I wish a prosperous 2010 for all of you! Make sure you all go out and try something new. Live life and don’t choke on your mochi!

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