Traditional Food to eat on New Year`s eve in Japan!

One of the traditions in Japan during New year’s eve is to eat Toshikoshi Soba (年越しそば) in English it means "soba noodles eaten on New Year's Eve". It`s a simple recipe with buckwheat and Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp. They believe that eating soba will give a fresh and clean new year and to cut all the negativity from the previous year.

When did they started this tradition?

The history of Toshikoshi Soba begins in the Kamakura period. At that time, at a temple in Hakata, people who were too poor to live through the New Year were served mochi made of buckwheat flour called “soba mochi.” Then, from the following year on, the luck of the people who ate soba mochi increased, and rumors spread that there was something good to eat. Since then, they have been able to eat it every year, and it has become what they call New Year’s noodles. Originally, the Japanese eat soba as a vegetarian dish at temples. However, it gradually spread to aristocrats, samurai, and common people, and all over Japan. Click here to know more….

Cooking this food is easy, click the link to know the steps on how to do it:

New Year Soba (Toshikoshi Soba) Recipe – Japan Centre

Affordable and delicious from the convenience store that you must try!

Enjoy eating your soba on New year`s eve and may have a good and wonderful 2022!

The book is called Opportunity, and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” —Edith Lovejoy Pierce, poet