Talking of today’s night food, it should be “the buckwheat noodles eaten on New Year’s Eve”!
And then, we greet New Year with hearing the watch-night bell,
though we cannot hear them here where temples don’t exist.
We have a habit to eat it for long life…. It is also a seasonal word of winter.
I don’t like shrimps so that I have Kakiage (deep-fried onion, carrot, burdock, etc) instead of deep-fried shrimp with backwheat noodle.
And, watching NHK’s music program called “Kohaku-utagassen”, singing competition between male and female top singers.
This is the Japanese way in the night of December 31!
*the watch-night bell: In Buddhist beliefs, humans are born with 108 wordly desires which are removed when the bell is struck 108 times.