Nabe-Nabe !!

2009-01-09T11:40:00.020+09:00

HELLO!!
I'm Yukiko^^.

This time , I'm going to introduce about Nabe-ryori.

Nabemono or simply called nabe, is a term referring to all varieties of Japanese steamboat dishes, also known as one pot dishes. The pots are traditionally made of clay ( donabe) which can keep warm for a while after being taken off the fire or cast thick iron(tetsunabe) which evenly distributes heat and is preferable for sukiyaki.

donabe tetsunabe

The pots are usually placed in the center of dining tables, shared by many people.

Eating together from a shared pot is considered as an important feature of nabemono. EastAsian people believe that eating from one pot makes for closer relationships. The Japanese thus say, Nabe (w)o kakomu (鍋を囲む、"sitting around the pot"), implying that sharing nabemono will create warm relations between the diners who eat together from the shared pot.

Japanese culture, which can be called "a culture of harmony," places importance on harmony among friends. One cultural form for confirming harmony involves friends getting together to drink sake and eat, and nabe-ryori is appropriate for such gatherings.

☆Varieties
　There are various types of nabemono in Japan; lightly flavored mostly with kombu such as yudōfu (湯豆腐) and mizutaki (水炊き) and eaten with dipping (tare) to enjoy the taste of the ingredients themselves, and deeply flavored typically with miso, soy sauce, dashi, and/or sweet soy such as yosenabe (寄鍋), oden (おでん), and sukiyaki (すき焼き) and eaten without further flavoring.

Nabe is Japanese traditional food!
If you eat this, your body become warm, but also heart!!

Nabe Nabe!!

Nabe-Nabe !!