Seasonal Good Food Give Us an Appetite in the Upcoming Fall! Delicacies That You Can Enjoy Under the Full Moon!
September 13, 2019, will be the ”Fifteen Night” on which the fullest moon of a year appears.
The moon of this night is also known as the ”Mid-autumn Festival Moon”, and the custom of admiring the moon began since ancient Japan.
On Mid-autumn Festival, people decorate the windows with autumn plants and worship ”Dango” to pray for a good harvest.
Nowadays, it has become a common practice to admire the moon and enjoy food-related to the moon.
Let us introduce the ”Moon-admiring Cuisine” Japanese enjoy to you right away!
Seven-Eleven 【Cold Dango with overflowing sauce】
When it comes to snacks for moon admiring, the first food that comes into mind is always the Dango.
The glutinous rice Dango is a Japanese snack simply made with Dango topped with overflowing soy-sauce flavored sweet sauce.
Such cup-packaged Dango is rare since the common way is to string them on a stick.
It is also very novel to submerge the Dango with overflowing sauce.
There are five mouth size Dangos in one serving.
You don’t need to worry about the hardening of the Dango due to cooling; contrarily, the Dango after cooling is surprisingly soft and chewy. Besides, the less sweet sauce perfectly blends with the Dango which makes it a delicious dessert♪
The extraordinary taste of Dango makes it impossible to hide the surprising happiness on your face, no wonder it’s the convenience store sweet of Japan.
Cold Dango with overflowing sauce
Moon-admiring Soba【Maru Chan Green Beaver Tempura Soba】
When it comes to moon admiring, dishes made with egg are also very popular.
Let’s change ”Maru Chan Green Beaver (Tempura Soba)” into a ”Moon admiring soba”.
This is how it looks when completed. Can you tell that the yolk above is just like the look of a full moon?
By simply putting the ”moon admiring egg” onto the soba, the ”moon admiring cuisine” can be easily finished ♪
Maru Chan Green Beaver Tempura Soba（East Japan）
Maru Chan Green Beaver Tempura Soba（West Japan）
Simple steps of making ”moon admiring egg” by microwave
１．Break eggs into a small dish and use chopsticks to scoop up the egg white for about 10 times.
２．Poke a hole in the yolk with chopsticks for 1-2 times. (Without a hole, the egg might explode.)
３．Use a microwave to heat up at 600w for 40-50 secs. It can be taken out when the egg white turn from transparent to white.
４．Finish! Finally, draw a circle around the egg white then it can be easily taken out to be placed in soba.
Summary
How do you like all these foods?
In Japan, whenever ”Fifteen Night” is approaching, there will be many moon-admiring foods displayed in the store.
Feel the autumn of Japan while enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival!