New Year Greetings! :: あけましておめでとう!

>> Thursday, January 1, 2009

 明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします!

 クリスマスと年末休みはどうでしたか?
 
 お家は簡単なクリスマスイブディナーでプレゼントの交換でした。日本っぽい過ごし方ですかね。そうかもしれません。ただ、クリスマスディナーにはフィリピンの料理が中心でした。

 一方、年越しのイブには赤白合戦を見ながら、フィリピンの料理を食べていました。フィリピンでは、年越しのイブに料理や果物をいっぱい用意して零時になると食べる習慣があります。これは一年中家庭にいつも食べ物があるようにという意味だそうです。また、日本みたいな年越し蕎麦を食べる習慣もあります。


The simple dinner we had - a Christmas cake from Le Comte

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!

How was your year end holidays?!

Our family celebrated Christmas Eve/Day just the way Japanese do - eating Christmas cake and exchanging gifts, but most of the foods we prepared were filipino dishes which are serve during special occasions - such as caldereta and leche flan.


As for the New year, we prepared many foods just like what we do in my country. In the Philippines, we try to have plenty of foods and fruits in the dining table during new year - this is to wish that we could always have many foods in our dining table through out the year. We also have the tradition of eating noodles - just like eating "Toshikoshi soba" in Japan, to wish for a longer life.

And while we were eating dinner, of course we were watching the NHK's special year end singing contest.

I miss those days in Nagaoka where I and my friends would be eating mikan and nabe mono under warm kotatsu table while watching this NHK program and snow flakes behind the windows.

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