A Happy New Year!

How have you been doing in New Year holidays?
In Japan, we usually spend calmly during New Year holidays. As typical traditional ways to spend New Year holidays, we visit to greet each other, eat traditional dishes that is called "Osechi", go to shrine to pray New Year's resolution, of course, and drink a lot .

As a preparation for the New Year, we pound steamed rice into rice cake on Dec. 30th. Have you ever eaten rice cakes? Do you know that the rice for rice cake is different from ordinary rice? The immediately after pounding rice cake is especially delicious. I ate it with grated Japanese white radish and soy sauce.