Japanese people love to eat cold food

Japanese people love to eat cold food, a lot of people will not be able to control their own mouth in terms of food, always eat something harmful to their body, in fact, we are in order to their own health or to pay attention to their own diet, the following is about the Japanese people love to eat cold food.

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Because the Japanese people like to eat cold food is one of their traditions, since ancient times, Japan is through the production of cold food to achieve the purpose of food preservation, coupled with the Japanese believe that their bento only eat cold to eat, if they will be their sushi and other food to heat up the words will lose the original flavor of the food, so the Japanese people, regardless of what the season is like to eat cold food.

Japanese people like to eat cold food regardless of the season.

Japan is an island country, the lack of domestic resources, can only rely on the sea to eat the sea, so the Japanese in the ancient times of the biggest source of food and income is to go to sea fishing, but to go to sea fishing is the need to bring food

If in the summer when the temperature is very high, to bring the hot food is certainly not practical, so they can only be a kind of non-perishable bento, is a cold rice ball, and then in a cold rice ball, and the food is not easy to eat, but also to eat cold. a cold ball of rice, then pour a bit of vinegar on it and eat the fish they hit directly on top of the ball.

This is actually one of the most primitive sushi, and then the Japanese found that eating this way actually tastes very delicious, so they improved this cuisine, and slowly formed the sushi we eat now.

We all know that Japanese sushi is cold, if heated, it will destroy the original flavor of the sushi, so the Japanese people have been eating this cold sushi since childhood, their stomach has adapted to this cold stimulation.

Japanese people from a young age to accept the cold training, we can see a lot of Japanese girls in the winter is still wearing a short skirt, or Japanese students in the winter on the physical education class are wearing a short shirt and shorts

This is in fact to let the children from a young age, the body will produce cold resistance, because the Japanese people think that the cold things on the body stimulation is very good, can be fully mobilized the body's energy, let the Japanese body more healthy. people's body more your home health, so the Japanese people no matter what season like to eat cold food.

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For many people in the country, eating hot lunch box is a very natural thing, but accustomed to eating cold rice and cold food for Japan or cold lunch box is the most delicious!

The cold lunchbox culture favored by the Japanese was once reported to Asahi Shimbun by a foreign student studying in Osaka, who said, "I can't understand Japanese students eating cold lunchboxes, but if you want to eat lunchboxes, you should eat hot lunchboxes. The article was also discussed on the Internet.

Chinese schools are basically equipped with canteens just for students to eat a hot meal. The meal, even if you order a nutritious lunch, the manufacturer will be sent to the school close to noon time, on the contrary, in Japan, whether it is a school or a workplace, even the heating machine is not available, everyone is directly eaten cold bento, what is the reason for the Japanese to adhere to the "culture of cold food" it?

The history of the origin of the Japanese bento is that from the beginning of our understanding of Japanese culture, we know that Japanese cuisine is mostly cold, like sushi, onigiri, sashimi, and so on, and the main reason for this dietary habit has to go back to the Nara era...

At that time, it was customary to dry cooked white rice and prepare it as "dry food" to be eaten on long journeys.

In the Heian period, the desire to eat out became even stronger, and rice was shaped into eggs, which we now call onigiri (rice balls), to be carried around and eaten on the go, which is why the Japanese believed that a bento should be cold.

Japanese rice is best eaten cold Japanese bento culture is known around the world thanks to the Japanese rice, cooked soft and moderately hard, but also has a unique elasticity and viscosity is the most important feature of the rice even if it is cold, the flavor is also very good, and therefore the birth of rice ball bento and sushi bento, even if the rice and side dishes eaten separately, you can still fully appreciate the chewiness of the rice.

People who know Japanese culture must know that Japanese people's diet is actually a bit lighter, and compared to Chinese bento, which uses a lot of oil to cook, Japanese bento is lighter, and the side dishes are made with less oil and less salt, so you don't have to heat them up to get them in the mouth.

Although Japan is a cold lunch culture, but there is no shortage of convenience train stations to hear people ask for heating lunch, after all, the supermarkets provide a variety of refrigerated, frozen food, people will still be based on the contents of the decision to heat or not.

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Although the station convenience stores also put out microwave ovens, but eating cold boxed lunches without heating seems to be fine for the Japanese. Even the granddaughter of the Emperor of Japan, the only child of the Crown Prince and Princess Yako - Princess Aiko of Japan's boxed lunches, but also their own early in the morning from home to bring, noon and classmates together in the classroom to meet **** meal, to eat cold rice and cold food.

The Japanese manga "Lonely Gourmet", the protagonist of the Inokashira Goro once took the Shinkansen, bought the kind of self-heating boxed lunches, thinking: you can eat hot boxed lunches, the feeling should be good, right!

But I did not expect, he sat down and took out the legendary self-heating boxed lunch, a pull the self-heating switch, the boxed lunch is really like a boiling boiler, not only white smoke, but also spewed out the smell of food, which is the opposite of Goro feel embarrassed, not only to the neighboring strangers embarrassed, the feeling of the entire compartment of the passengers know what he wants to taste boxed lunch, boxed lunch heated up in a few seconds instantly, so that he could not wait to be in the speeding train to dig a hole in the ground to hide. The first time I saw this, I was so embarrassed.

(This is some of our domestic automatic heating of the boxed lunch, an average of 15, 6 yuan a)

So you now why the Japanese secretly ate their own unheated boxed lunch intention it.

In the past, before cell phones became popular, most Japanese used to read books on the train, and reading is private, so in order to keep other passengers from knowing what they are reading, when Japanese people buy books and check out, they will ask the bookstore to use wrapping paper to fold a book cover, so the clerk's efforts to fold the book cover are also very impressive. However, if a customer is environmentally friendly and indicates to the clerk that he or she does not need a book cover, the clerk will also bow and say thank you, "Thank you for caring for the earth.

Figure: Because Asian tourists don't like to eat cold boxed lunches, businesses have introduced self-heating boxed lunches: in fact, it is the use of calcium oxide (quicklime) in contact with water will be exothermic chemical reaction, in the lower layer of the boxed lunches placed in the packet of water, the use of pulling a line will be mixed with water and lime, the release of heat to heat up the food.

Since books have to hide their covers, it's best not to let the smell interfere with other people when eating boxed lunches in the carriage, which is an etiquette that the Japanese are very mindful of, right? The only way to meet the etiquette standard seems to be to have a cold boxed lunch.

Freshly cooked dishes have the fullest smell, and rely on the sense of smell to attract people. After it cools, the smell will converge, and if you want to taste the flavor, you have to rely on the effort of chewing, and after the food is slowly heated and moistened between the saliva, it will be able to emit the original flavor of the time it was cooked.

The other day, I read the essay "Taste of the Past" by Ikenami Shotaro, a well-known Japanese writer of period novels, and he wrote about the boxed lunches of Wakazumo, a takeaway restaurant in Shinagawa that he was familiar with, that "the moment I opened the lid of the box and saw the dishes inside, I already had a rough idea of how good the boxed lunches were going to be. The moment I opened the lid and saw the color of the food inside, I knew exactly how good it would be."

According to Mr. Ikenami, it's very difficult to make a boxed lunch. After all, it takes several hours for the customer to eat it, so careful consideration is given to the choice of ingredients, the cooking method, and the type of customer, and a lot of thought is put into making the boxed lunch.

Over the years, we have gradually learned to socialize with cold boxed lunches in a low-key manner, with little enthusiasm for the entrance, and as long as we chew slowly, we will understand each other's feelings. The cold box lunch, in fact, is not so cold!