featuring Japanese New Year's food
●チキン入りのお雑煮、用意して待っとるから。
Chicken iri no ozouni youi shite mattoru kara
― I'll have some New Year's soup with chicken waiting.
Zōni (雑煮), often with the honorific "o-" as o-zōni, is a Japanese soup containing mochi rice cakes. The dish is strongly associated with the Japanese New Year and its tradition of osechi ceremonial foods. Zōni is considered the most auspicious of the dishes eaten on New Year's Day. The preparation of zōni varies both by household and region.
Common additions to the soup include chicken, fish or meatballs; leafy vegetables such as komatsuna or spinach; mitsuba (a Japanese herb similar to parsley); kamaboko such as naruto and carrot flakes for colour; and flakes of yuzu peel for its citrus fragrance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zōni)
●年越しそばはおあずけだな。
Toshikoshi-soba ha oazuke dana
― We'll have to get that New Year's soba another time.
Toshikoshi soba (年越し蕎麦), year-crossing noodle, is Japanese traditional noodle bowl dish eaten on New Year's Eve. This custom lets go of hardship of the year because soba noodles are easily cut while eating.
The tradition started around Edo period (1603-1867) and there are several theories believed that long soba noodles symbolize a long life.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshikoshi_soba)
●七草粥には戻るからって班長に伝えておいて。
Nanakusa-gayu niha modoru kara tte hanchou ni tsutaeteoite
― Tell the chief we'll be back by January 7th.
The Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japanese: 七草の節句) is the long-standing Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge (nanakusa-gayu) on January 7 (Jinjitsu).
The custom of eating nanakusa-gayu on this day, to bring longevity and health, developed in Japan from a similar ancient Chinese custom, intended to ward off evil. Since there is little green at that time of the year, the young green herbs bring color to the table and eating them suits the spirit of the New Year. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanakusa-no-sekku)
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