What Japanese food best represents winter?

When the weather gets cold, I always feel hungry again. There are so many delicious foods running through my mind. Do you really want to eat something hot to warm yourself up?

Sukiyaki (Sukiyaki)

The Japanese seem to have the skill of being "unafraid of the cold", but they love hot pot as much as anyone in winter.

Every cold winter, at a dinner party with colleagues or friends at home or at work, just say "Let's have soup pot tonight" and the atmosphere will immediately become lively.

"Sukiyaki", which is made by simmering thin slices of beef, vegetables and other ingredients in a sweet and spicy soup, has not only become a representative dish for Japanese people to enjoy top-quality beef;

< p>When families encounter happy gatherings or celebrations, they often prepare carefully for the whole family to enjoy.

Ishikari Nabe

Ishikari Nabe is a representative local flavor of Hokkaido. The main ingredient is salmon sashimi. Ingredients such as salmon or vegetables are seasoned with sake lees stock and miso and then stewed. .

This dish is named after the Ishikari River, which is rich in salmon.

The eastern part of Hokkaido is generally called "Tokachi hot pot".

In the Obihiro area, the same dish is also called "Tokachi Hotpot".

Thick soup, fish, vegetables and other ingredients are cooked in a large pot at the same time. It is a soup dish that has healthy and nourishing effects. It is absolutely awesome to enjoy the warmth in the cold winter!

Sumo Hotpot

If you go to Japan for the first time and don’t go to Hokkaido but around Tokyo, then the must-recommend soup pot in Tokyo is the “Sumo Hotpot”.

The sumo pot is stewed with meat, fish, meatballs, vegetables, etc. in a thick soup made from chicken bones. It feels very "solid". No wonder it can be used as a meal for sumo wrestlers after training. , its balanced nutritional content and delicious taste are addictive.

Related simple cooking kits are also sold in supermarkets and are very popular

Hokkaido Crab Feast

In addition to the very friendly soup pot dishes, Japan's winter "tall The top dish must be said to be the Hokkaido Crab Feast.

It seems that I have never seen a crab bigger than the Hokkaido king crab. Generally, the big one weighs 5 kilograms, and the small one weighs 3 kilograms.

So, it is very difficult for a person to bite down a king crab.

There is a seafood street near Hakodate, Hokkaido. It is an excellent place to eat the "Three Crab Banquet Cuisine" of Chu crab, hairy crab, and king crab. It usually costs about 10,000 yen.

Fresh crab sashimi is tender and bright in color.

Horse meat sashimi

Eating horse meat is a unique culture in Kumamoto, Japan. The fresh horse meat is pink and is also called "Sakura meat";

The general way to eat it is to dip it in special soy sauce. This soy sauce is added with minced ginger, garlic, chopped green onion and other condiments, which makes it taste unique.

Since the fat part of horse meat dissolves at low temperatures, the pork belly part of horse meat can also be eaten raw as sashimi.

Horse meat is said to be rich in collagen, low in calories, and has a very low fat content. It is an extremely healthy red meat

Japanese sake

When the weather is cold, it is warm. It is also a pleasure to drink from a small bottle with a "pigguchi" (a small porcelain cup for drinking sake).

Japanese sake is generally drunk at room temperature (around 16°C). In winter, it needs to be blanched before drinking. It is generally heated to 40°C~50°C and served in a shallow flat bowl or a small ceramic cup.

Generally, the most common way to warm sake is to pour the sake you want to drink into a sake pot, and then put it into preheated boiling hot water to warm it to a suitable drinking temperature. This method is mainly used. It can best maintain the original flavor of the wine and let it gradually release its aroma.

Genghis Khan Barbeque

Genghis Khan Barbeque is "once again" a special winter delicacy in Hokkaido.

Ingredients such as mutton, onions, and pumpkin are grilled on a protruding iron plate like the bottom of a pot, and then eaten with special seasonings.

Paired with a glass of Sapporo’s specialty draft beer is the most authentic way to eat Genghis Khan barbecue.

The most famous time-honored restaurant in Sapporo is the Damo Genghis Khan BBQ restaurant. It has three branches and is very popular.