The Japanese also have the custom of eating Okonomiyaki every New Year, what do they eat?

Japan before the New Year's Day, Spring Festival this two New Year's Day, with our country is now very similar, but after the Meiji Restoration changed to the Gerry calendar, so now most of the places in Japan is not to celebrate the first month of the New Year, every year December 29th to the New Year's Day January 3rd is a vacation in Japan, so the Japanese people New Year's Day is going to be a special cuisine.

The Japanese New Year's Day to eat Gokuji cuisine, can also be said to be the Japanese New Year's Eve dinner, the official heavy box has five layers, Gokuji cuisine mainly consists of five layers of lacquered wooden boxes, symbolizing the joyful event? The layers overlap, so that it is a good luck. The first to fourth tiers hold different dishes, and the dishes placed on each tier have their own rules, from the first tier to the fourth tier in order of pre-coffee snacks, barbecue, boiled vegetables, and vinegar pickles. The first tier is a small platter of sweets, usually filled with a bowl of good luck, red and white fish cakes, fish omelettes, and kurikin-dumplings; the second tier is for yakiniku, or grilled food. The second tier is yakiniku, or grilled food, which is usually grilled yellowtail, saikyo-yaki with Spanish mackerel, and grilled chicken; the third tier is boiled dishes, or Japanese stews; and the fourth tier is coleslaw, which is loaded with refreshing coleslaw flavored with vinegar and used to clear the palate. A traditional set of Okonomiyaki requires more than 20 or more dishes. The fifth tier, on the other hand, is meant to contain the blessings received from the god of the year, so it is usually empty.On December 31st, it is? Daigeki Day? , referring to the last day of the year, which is called New Year's Eve in Japan. At midnight on New Year's Eve, 108 temple bells are rung at various temples to symbolize the exorcism of 108 devils and troubles, while Japanese people sit in silence to listen to the bells on New Year's Eve, and the stopping of the bells signals the arrival of the New Year. People still eat soba noodles on this day.

The traditional Japanese soba, most of which are eaten with a dipping sauce, dipping sauce is called? Omotenashi? There are also some soba is noodle soup type, this way of eating soba is more popular with young people.