Oden
Oden is a Japanese dish with a variety of several ingredients such as radish, fishcakes, cow tendons, konjac and even sausages in a soy-flavored fish broth. Ingredients vary depending on areas and houses. We usually eat oden in the wintertime. It is also fun to choose what to eat and to talk with shop owers. Conversations with them is a part of the taste.
Cabbage rolls are soft, and there is minced meat in them. A texture of konjac is almost gummy. It’s tasteless in itself and being very low in calories. However, cow tendons and chicken yolks and fallopian tubes are my favorite. I love the time to eat them slowly, at the same time, have a drink of warm sake in a cold day and share conversations at the counter with shop owners and customers. Usually, they are fun and are very good conversationalist, but I cannot recall what we talked about the following morning.
