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Hello, everyone!
How are you getting along ?
Today it is raining and is chilly. I wrote a letter about chopsticks last month. But we Japanese can not eat with only chopsticks. We need the container in which we put the food. We usually use chawan to eat rice or to drink tea. And there is a simple Japanese dish called chazuke.
So today I will read the articles about chawan and chazuke from "Japan - an illustrated Encyclopedia"(Kodansha).
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chawan
Ceramic bowls in which rice or tea is served. The word chawan (literally, "teabowl") originally referred to bowls used in the TEA CEREMONY; it is now also the general term for rice bowls (meshi-jawan) and teacups without handles (yunomi-jawan). In the typical Japanese household each person has a rice bowl and teacup reserved for his or her exclusive use. As it is customary in Japan to hold the rice bowl in one hand as one eats, the bowl is normally of a standard shape and weight, making it easy to pick up and hold. Teacups are of a wide variety of shape and sizes, some with lids.
chazuke
A simple Japanese dish made by pouring hot green tea or hot water over a bowl of rice that has been topped with any of a variety of ingredients, including pickled plum (UMEBOSHI), salted cod roe (tarako), salted salmon, or TSUKUDANI (delicacies simmered in soy sauce). Cold or hot water was poured over rice as early as the Heian period (794-1185), but it was not until the popularization of green tea during the Edo period (1600-1868) that pouring hot tea on rice became a common practice.
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I like chazuke very much, especially sakechazuke (chazuke topped with salted salmon).
Broil a piece of salted salmon and break it to pieces and put them with slivers of seawood (nori) and a pinch of salt on the rice in chawan. Pour hot water over rice in chawan and put a dollop of green horse radish (oroshi-wasabi) on it. It is completed.
It is very delicious, but I don't know if you like it. Most Japanese like it, espesially after drinking sake, I think.
Then see you next time!
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