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1月11日「鏡開き」
January eleventh,
Breaking open the New Year’s Rice Cake (“Kagamibiraki”)
Jack
So today is the day to break up the New Year’s Rice Cake!
King
Yup! Apparently you prepare it in red bean soup.
Ace
Soooo, what’s in the hotpot you have there?
King
Red bean soup?
Ace
All the rice cakes are overcooked and molten, you know...
King
Eeeeh?!
Note:
- The New Year's Rice Cake (New Year's Mochi), also called "Kagami Mochi" (mirror rice cake) because it looks like two flat mirrors on top of eachother, is bought in December and meant to be placed in a good place inside the home during new years to let the new year's god in. It can be two real rice cakes, but it can also be a plastic container with as few small rice cakes inside. The rice cakes are eaten on the 11th as a way to invite good luck and health.
See this link for pictures as well as a little more in depth info: Hotel Sakura Asakusa Staff Blog.
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