Oden! (おでん)

These days is getting cold. When in Japan it gets cold, many restaurants or shop start to offer Oden, which is a soup with a lot of goodies in it. When I had Oden in smal Japanese restaurants before, they sometimes charge you "by item". You can sometimes pick the items you prefer.

This is my first try cooking Oden. Theorically, one should cook it the day before, so that it gets more tasty, but yesterday i cooked it and let it rest for just few hours.

What can you find inside? Boiled eggs, toufu, fish and/or chicken meatballs and other things. The cute bag is actually a "Mochi" bag. Mochi's are some kind of soft rice cakes.

Of course, the first time i've tried it, i found that it was quite crowded to be a soup ;) in Switzerland when we eat a soup, besides vegetables, we don't have any other things in it...because a soup, should be light and some times just as an apetizer for the main meal during winter. Here, Oden, is actually the complete meal...