Standard food for Japan on Christmas Eve is chicken and cake, maybe washed down with some wine. At the station tonight after getting back from some shopping the area was buzzing with people buying their chicken and cake to take home.
I tried also to make a live streaming broadcast from my iPhone for the first time. You can see the video below. I think I will have to work on my “holding the camera still” technique in future. The broadcast got cut off at the end for some reason. Sorry.
I will experiment a bit more with the live streaming. You can follow me on ustream here.
I was speaking with Danny Choo from dannychoo.com about live streaming the other day. He already has a few videos produced from live streams and can be followed on ustream here and you can see his write-up about live streaming here as well.
Do you have anything special for Christmas Eve or do you save it all for Christmas Day?
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Oh that looks so yummy, and the cake is so cute. Not cute enough not to eat of course ^,~ hehe
800 yen for a chicken leg? Gosh. Anyhow, did it come with the shapes or did you make them?
I had to make my own shapes, but they were too frozen to eat 🙂
Delicious! 😀
RT @tweetmeme Japanese Christmas = chicken and cake, Japan Food | Shibuya246 http://bit.ly/5GLgF7 $8.00 usd for a chicken leg?
Seems like quite a lot imo. I’m more of a whirte meat person, what is the cost for say a breast portion? And those cakes are sure scrumptilious. It would be very hard for me to pick a favorite. but probably be the chocolate one. the one you picked out looks quite good also.
I am with you on the white meat, but my friend told that chicken = leg at christmas. mmmm, would have much preferred some breast meat. Merry Christmas.
I have been in Japan for 20 years but have never bought a Christmas cake. Last night, a student gave me an absolutely gorgeous one which had the benefit of also tasting fabulous. I still probably will not buy a Christmas cake, but my disdain for them has evaporated. 😉
Merry Christmas!
It is nice to have a cake as a gift. Merry Christmas 🙂
Yum! I had a yummy chicken leg today but no Christmas cake :l The cake looks absolutely adorable! I want a slice 😡
Kya~ the form of carrots is so cuteee hahaha
The chicken leg looks yummy but so expensive to me.
And the cake is simply perfect as chritmas girf >.< (I want it!)
no chicken leg, but went to the market this morning and scored some Christmas cake with strawberries
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starting a new Christmas tradition . . .
Excellent. They look pretty good. better price than i could get here as well. Hope you enjoyed it. 🙂
That does seem expensive for just a chicken leg. Is chicken typically expensive in Japan, or are the prices simply marked up around Christmas time?
Prices seem to get marked up at Christmas for chicken and cakes. The sizes increase as well from the normal, but its still pricey for what you get.
Ah, I see. I’m living in Singapore at the moment and prices seem to get marked up quite a bit here as well around the holidays as well, but not quite that high. My wife and I found a 1 kg ham for about the same price as your chicken leg!
cake & chicken not a bad idea for Xmas, is buying it all cooked better than roosting it in the oven yourself?! I would have bought a whole chicken season it the night before. ^^