スウエーデンの面白いものたち


by nyfiken
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Full moon 30th September 2012 中秋の名月

Saturday late at night, in Stockholm, there was full moon. Very high sky, you could see a beautiful fullmoon. Suddenly it appeared from clouds after midnignt in the Sky, shined so beautifully. In the city of Stockholm, it is not easy to hear insects singing like Japan(in Tokyo, we can hear insects singing in Fall), but in forest and country side, insects are singing beautifully in Sweden at the end of summer and autumn. In Japan we have 7 autumn wild flowers. These are so called AKI NO NANA KUSA. Surprisingly these colors of flowers are yellow& violet pink reminds me of summer wild flowers in Swedish forest and country roads.
Around this time in Japan, it gets start cooling air a bit, but here in the northern Europe, it is already gets colder after sunset. Full moon night, in my country, we eat tukimi dango, sweet rice cake filled with sweet red bean.And Raped red grapes. My mother used to serve Special sweet for full moon day (odango) and red grapes (kyohou). SHe always did special flower arrangement for full moon night.

As a childfood memory, this full moon day in Autumn relates to the special table arranged by mother. She told me in the moon there is a kind of God and watching us, so you should be a good girl? and pls.pray for that. Her prepared special table always decorated with those flowers, grapes in fruilts bascket, Odango(sweet redbean rice cakes.).It was always delicious memory when I was a child for any seasonal Japanese event and little romantic feeling with my fantasy.

We pray for the moon god.(ancient japanese used to believe in that moon God.)I miss sweet juicy real grapes. Here in Sweden, unfortunately I can not find the same ones. But in France and Switherland, they sell special grapes that we Japanese eat also. Whenever I have chances to go to Switherland in autumn, first I go to supermarket to find " Raped really delicious grapes.There is the one kind from 5 different kinds of grapes " Why do I know?

Only seeing from outside, most of Japanese knows that grapes.It looks like " Kyohou" or my favorite similar one " Stewben" Between skin and inside, always sweet grape juice are there.
Another missing food is " maron" In the northern part of Sweden, peoples do not eat maron as southern European and Japanese.When autumn comes, they sell at supermarket, but not many peopels buy since expensive, then for a while, freshness go, then inside has dried and harder. We miss maron. In autumn, chinese and Japanese eat maron as much as we can. Then we normally feel " Autamn has arrived at last." And autumn vegetable is sweet potate in Japan. We like to eat baked sweet potate, steamed sweet potate and sweet potate tempura. Best sweet potate tempura can be served at KONDO in GINZA, JAPAN. Once my friend invited me for tempura lunch.I think it was a kind of art.

There are many kinds of sweet potates. In africa like tanzania, I ate really sweet sweet potate. My another best sweet potate was " Baked sweet potate" street food in Shanghai, China. Sweet potate in China is yellow and quite sweet. I recall those sweet poptatoes when autumn comes.
by nyfiken | 2012-10-01 09:02