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Celebrate New Year's with Yozakura Quartet, Steins;Gate Meals in Boxes
posted on by Eric Stimson
New Year's is the Japanese holiday in which families get together to enjoy decadent feasts, usually of carefully prepared, subtly symbolic foods rarely eaten during the rest of the year. Called osechi, these are traditionally home-made and presented in neatly compartmentalized boxes called juubako, but you can now pick them up at convenience stores.
Famima is offering two notable anime-themed osechi this year: one for Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ and one for Steins;Gate. The Yozakura Quartet osechi includes roast pork with black pepper, skewers of water snails boiled in sugar, candied baby peaches, shrimp and spinach rolls and bamboo shoots. If your tastes bend more towards Steins;Gate, you can enjoy crab claws, sweet potatoes boiled in lemon juice, boiled lotus root, plum blossom candies and thinly sliced seaweed. Both sets include standard Japanese New Year's fare — pink and white broiled fish cakes, herring roe pickled in the Matsumae style, dried sardines, black soybeans with gold leaf, stewed shrimp, a ball made of tofu skin, sweet rolled omelets with fish paste, and plump shiitake mushrooms.
Top: Yozakura Quartet set; Bottom: Steins;Gate set
Both meals come with boxes, wrapping cloth and chopstick pouches embossed with their respective anime's designs. As this is gourmet fare, both carry the price tag of 12,800 yen (or $123). Famima has previously featured Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ as a brand of instant ramen.
[Via Anime! Anime! and Famima]
