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Lucky New Year Black-Eyed Peas in Sweet Shoyu

31 Dec, by Pat Tanumihardja in Braising, Celebrations, Food traditions, Japanese, Vegetable

Instead of celebrating Lunar New Year like the Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese, the Japanese celebrate the Western New Year on January 1st. This wasn’t always the case. It was only in 1873, five years after the Meiji Restoration (the revolution that transferred power from the Tokugawa shogunate to...