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We eat buckwheat noodles called "soba" in Japanese at midnight on New Year's Eve.
This is called "Toshikoshi soba" which means "soba to welcome the new year".
This special soba has some hidden meanings.
1. live happily for long since soba is thin and long.
2. throw all bad luck of the old year away since soba is easily snapped.
3. live like soba since buckwheat stands up in the sun even after it's exposed to a storm.
If you don't finish this soba, then it's said that you wouldn't have a luck of money in the new year.
It's also said that you have to finish this soba by 12 o'clock at night.
Otherwise it's said you'll bring on bad luck to the new year.

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This summer I visited Czech Republic.
There I met 3 Czech girls.
What surprised me is all of them love Suchi so much.
They try to make Sushi themselves.
One of them even tries to buy what is called "Sushi Kit" on the internet.
According to her it's very expensive(about 440 $US) so that she can only buy it once in 3 months.
For me, Sushi is of course nothing special.
Some Sushi restaurants are very expensive here in Japan, but we have many cheap ones as well, and we can buy ingredients at relatively cheap price in supermarkets.
So this experience was kind of "culture shock" to me.
I've heard before that there are many Suchi restaurants abroad.
But it's still amazing that many foreigners love that Japanese unique taste.