Japanese people like to eat cold food. Many people can't control their mouths when eating, and always eat something harmful to their health. In fact, for our health, we should pay attention to our diet. The following is about Japanese people's love of cold food.
Japanese love to eat cold food 1 Because eating cold food is a Japanese tradition, since ancient times, Japan has made cold food to achieve the purpose of food preservation. In addition, Japan thinks that their lunch is delicious only when it is cold. If their sushi and other foods are heated, the original flavor of the food will be lost, so the Japanese like to eat cold food no matter what season.
Because Japan is an island country and its domestic resources are relatively scarce, it can only rely on the sea to eat the sea. Therefore, in ancient times, the biggest source of food and income for Japanese people was fishing at sea, but fishing at sea required food.
If the temperature is very high in summer, it is definitely unrealistic to bring hot food, so they can only cook a kind of lunch that is not easy to deteriorate, that is, cold rice balls, and then pour a little vinegar on them, and then eat the fish on the balls directly.
This is actually one of the most original sushi. Later, I found that this way of eating is actually delicious, so I constantly improved this way of eating and gradually formed the sushi we eat now.
We all know that Japanese sushi is cold, and heating it will destroy the original flavor of sushi, so Japanese people have been eating this kind of cold sushi since childhood, and their stomachs have adapted to this cold stimulation.
Japanese people have to be trained in cold tolerance since childhood. We can see that many Japanese girls still wear short skirts in winter, or Japanese students wear shorts in physical education class in winter.
In fact, this is to make children have cold tolerance from an early age, because the Japanese think that cold things stimulate the body very well and can fully mobilize the energy of the body to make people healthier, so the Japanese like to eat cold food no matter what season.
Japanese like cold food. For many people in China, eating hot box lunch is a matter of course, but for Japanese who are used to eating cold rice and cold dishes, cold box lunch is the best!
Japanese favorite "cold lunch culture" Once an international student studying in Osaka wrote to Asahi Shimbun, saying, "I can't understand the fact that Japanese students eat cold lunch. If you want to have lunch, you should have a hot lunch. And this article also set off a discussion on the Internet.
Schools in China are basically equipped with canteens, just to let students have a hot meal. Even if they order nutritious lunches, the manufacturer will send them to school near noon. On the other hand, in Japan, there is no heater in schools or workplaces, and everyone just eats cold lunch. What makes the Japanese adhere to the "cold food culture"?
The history of the origin of Japanese bento has been known since we knew Japanese culture. Japanese cuisine is mainly cold food, such as sushi, rice balls and sashimi. The main reason for this eating habit can be traced back to the Nara era. ...
At that time, there was a habit of drying the cooked rice and making it into "dry food", which was convenient for eating when traveling long distances.
In times of peace, I became more conscious of going out to eat, so I kneaded plain rice into an egg shape, which is what we now call rice balls, and took it with me and ate it at any time. Therefore, the Japanese will think that lunch should be cold.
Japanese rice tastes best when it is cold. Japanese bento culture is famous for Japanese rice. After cooking, it is characterized by moderate hardness and unique elasticity and viscosity. Rice tastes good even if it is cold. Thus, rice ball lunch and sushi lunch were born. Even if rice and side dishes are eaten separately, the chewiness of rice can still be fully understood.
People who know Japanese culture must know that Japanese food is actually cold. Compared with Chinese lunch, Japanese lunch uses more oil, but it is light. The side dishes are mainly less oil and less salt, and it is better to eat without heating. (However, the Japanese really eat very little. When living in Japan, they once thought they were the king of eating too much (*/-\ *))
In addition, because the common side dishes in Japanese toilets, such as common pickled dried plums, salads, fruits, etc., are not suitable for heating but not perishable, they can also be eaten directly cold.
Although Japan is a cold lunch culture, there are also many people who ask for heating lunch at the convenience railway station. After all, supermarkets offer all kinds of frozen foods, and everyone will decide whether to heat them according to the contents.
Japanese people like to eat cold food. Although the convenience store in the station also has a microwave oven, it seems that it doesn't matter to the Japanese to eat an unheated cold box lunch. Even the granddaughter of the Japanese emperor, the Crown Prince, and the only son of Masako, Princess Aiko of Japan, brought a box lunch from home early in the morning, and had lunch with her classmates at noon, eating cold rice and cold dishes.
In the Japanese cartoon "Lonely Gourmet", the protagonist Kogoro Inoue once took the Shinkansen and bought that kind of self-heating box lunch, thinking: It should feel good to eat hot box lunch!
Unexpectedly, after he sat down, he took out the legendary self-heating lunch box and opened and closed it. The box lunch really looks like a small boiling boiler, which not only emits white smoke, but also smells of food. At this time, Goro felt very embarrassed, not only for the stranger next door, but also for the passengers in the whole carriage who knew what kind of box lunch he wanted. After the lunch box was heated for a few seconds, he wanted to dig a hole in the speeding train to hide.
This is some self-heating lunch boxes in our country, with an average of 15, 6 yuan each.
So why do you think Japanese people secretly eat unheated box lunch by themselves now?
Before the popularity of mobile phones, most Japanese people used to read books on trams, and reading was private. In order not to let other passengers know what books they are reading, the Japanese always ask the bookstore to fold a book cover with wrapping paper when buying books, so the clerk has great strength to fold the book cover. However, if the customer tells the clerk that the book cover is not needed at the checkout of the bookstore for environmental protection, the clerk will bow and thank you, "Thank you for your love for the earth."
Photo: Because Asian tourists don't like to eat cold box lunch, merchants introduce self-heating box lunch: in fact, it is to use the chemical reaction of calcium oxide (quicklime) to release heat when it meets water, put a bag of water under the box lunch, mix the water with lime with a pull wire, and release heat energy to heat the food.
Since books should be covered and packed in the carriage, it is best not to let the smell disturb others. This is the etiquette that Japanese people care about very much! It seems that only a cold lunch box can meet the etiquette standards.
The newly cooked dish has the best flavor, so it looks attractive. After cooling, the smell will converge. If you want to taste it, you need to chew it. After the food is slowly heated and moistened between saliva, it will slowly give off the original flavor of cooking.
Every few days, I will read the essay "The Taste of the Past" by Shotaro Ikenami, a famous Japanese time novelist, and write about the lunch box in a take-away restaurant he is familiar with. "When I opened the lid and saw the dishes inside, I already knew roughly how delicious this box lunch would be."
Mr. Chibo thinks that it is very difficult to make a box lunch. After all, it will take several hours for guests to eat when it is cooked. Therefore, when making bento, we should carefully consider the choice of ingredients, cooking methods and customer categories, and pay more attention than other dishes. At the moment when diners open the lid, the food must look fresh and there is a way to arouse their appetite.
Over the years, I gradually learned to communicate with the cold box lunch in a low-key way. There is no strong enthusiasm at the entrance. As long as I chew slowly, I will understand each other's thoughts. Cold box lunch, in fact, is not so indifferent!