February 3rd is "Setsubun" in Japan.
We play "Mame maki" in Setsubun, throwing to Oni (demon) for wishing annual our health.
By the way, mame means beans in English.
Generally, Setsubun is such event, but the detail of event seems to be differnt depends on region.
I will introduce you to Ehou-maki today.
In the western part of Japan, we seem to eat it in Setsubun.
Perhaps, "rice roll" is the best English word to describe it.
Or do you know Japanese word "Nori-maki" ?
Anyway, Ehou-maki is a kind of rice food and it contains a variety of ingredient besides rolled by laver.
Simply "nori" means laver and "maki" means roll.
And when we eat it, we should turn to paticular direction.
The direction is different depend on the year.
This year it seems to the north-northwest.
There are another rule for eating, but I don't know detail.(I live in Shizuoka and it is a central region in Japan.)
I said that I work for foodmall in department store before.
Our foodmall sold abundant Ehou-maki.
Many of customers got it there, still some Ehou-maki was left.
I took them my house, but I won't be able to eat all.
So I gave them some of my friends.
Then my friends were pleased and gave some treat for me !
I like chocolate very much.
Thanks to Ehou-maki I got happy today !
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