Shopping for Christmas dinner in Japan is a real trip. If you thought my Christmas Hills post was a bit over the top, wait until you hear about Christmas dinner!
I grew up celebrating Christmas in the USA, it's part of my faith, however we never included fried chicken or Christmas cakes in said celebrations. Enter Japan.
Many years ago, 1974 to be exact, Kentucky Fried Chicken launched what would become a staple for Christmas in Japan, fried chicken. Now, to be honest we can't blame them. The problem was Japan doesn't have many turkeys, so the solution was marketing genius by KFC, have chicken instead! Suddenly a holiday tradition was born!
So on Christmas Eve the Mrs. and I went looking for dinner. In the past we would just settle on some delicious steak, but this year our business did much better than last year so we went full YOLO!
We started with the obvious steaks.
After that it was lots of browsing. The sample platter looked good.
The bucket screamed YOLO, but we wanted to celebrate, not have a heart attack.
Chicken legs anyone?
More chicken...
MORE!!!
Finally, sushi. Gotta have sushi.
Although we did pass on the roast beef sushi, that's for lunches.
We grabbed some salad, roasted Korean seaweed for cream cheese rolls, some strange salad for my wife, and ingredients for the Christmas cake!
This year I decided to make cookies and a cake with my daughter instead of buying one like we usually do. Here is last year's cake vs. mine & my daughter's.
Professional
Amateur
Ours tasted better though! Oh, and some Mexican wedding cookies.
They should be called butter cookies though since half the mix is butter!
It was a delicious dinner and now it's time to start the process all over again for New Year's Eve! Fried chicken anyone?
Thanks for reading!
Greetings @rt395 ,
Thank you for a window into the Japanese culture.....quite an interesting post.
Such a delicious selection.
Wishing you and yours a belated Happy Christ-mas.
Bleujay
You're welcome. Thank you. Indeed, a belated Merry Christ-mas to you and your's too.
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