Very public dish of Japan

Maybe Ramen is well known as a Japanese dish in your country. But originally this dish was created in China a long time ago.

When I was younger, we called it “Chuka-soba” in Japan. Chuka- soba means Chinese noodle in Japanese. This noodle in this picture is just really called Chuka-soba. I often eat this at a public restaurant nearby. One old master and his fellows are operating this restaurant. It’s simple and popular in this town.

These are standard ingredients. Noodles, green onions, char siu, kamaboko and menma. Have you heard of a food called menma? Menma is made from bamboo, it’s bamboo pickles. Japanese people like to eat bamboo, just like Panda. hahaha

Ramen is a very public dish, so every Japanese person likes ramen. Do you have the same kind of dish in your country?

Oh my God, heavy snow

Heavy snow fell this week. In front of my house, there were 20 centimeters of snow that day. When I got up in the morning, my city changed a white world. Some children were making snowmen but I did snow removal work on the street. And I looked at Google Maps, then almost all the roads around my city indicated the color of red. I mean, a huge traffic jam occurred here and there. So every worker was troubled by it. In Japan, there have been heavy snowfalls once per year. It could be caused by global warming. When it happens in a particular region, all vehicles have to stop on the road of the region for one or two days. This year's case occurred in my region. Oh my God. In my company, truck drivers were crying because they could not finish their work that day….

Small Akihabara shrine in my neighborhood

You may know a very famous town called Akihabara in Japan. The small shrine in this picture has its roots in Akihabara. In Akihabara, there is a big shrine where the God of fire is living. So this small shrine is a tiny branch shrine in my street. You can see a master of the shrine in front of that, and he is praying for peace in my street. And you can see some buildings behind the shrine, which are houses of residents in my street. Actually, this shrine is built on the water way, I don’t know the reason why. That thing is very rare in Japan. On January 8th, we had a very small annual festival in this place. About 20 neighbors were gathering in front of the shrine, to pray for God. The shrine master dedicated a short sentence called “Norito”, which are the celebration words for God. Because there were many fires in Japan before wartime, we have a tradition praying to the God of fire, to prevent fires.