Living in Japan | Grocery Shopping, Celebrate Lunar New Year with Two Traditional Dinner

[@khalilahd.]

Happy lunar new year! All your food looked incredible 😋 also pineapple cake is my favorite too 💜😅

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much 😊 I really miss the pineapple 🍍 tart I had in Taiwan! Best ever!😋

[@allisonc520]

Thanks for taking us around with you during your grocery shopping. Thanks for sharing these lovely dishes with us ☺ It's a true feast 😋 Happy year of the tiger 🥂🎉

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much! I wish the 🐯 bring you lots of happiness, success and prosperities too🧧🎊🙌

[@kod-ee-wom-pl]

Happy Lunar New Year! 😃 Nice cooking and wonderful sharing. Have a healthy and lucky year of tiger 🐯😊

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you! I wish you a lots of happiness with good health in the year of tiger 🐯 too! 💛

[@Rose-yd7bn]

All your food looked beautiful! I am so happy you had chance to go out with your hubby alone!

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you always! 💛 Haha, with the kids around, we seldom go out just the two of us! It had been a while! 😅

[@ulriked8147]

Love your videos and the recipes 🥰 I will try all of them Love from Germany

[@LinnainJapan]

Wow! Let me know again if you try any of them! I am so honored friend from Germany would be interested in my cooking 🥰 Thank you for watching ☺️💛

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

Happy Lunar New Year! 🎈🐯🎈 Loved seeing this. I watched the shopping section twice just so I didn't miss anything, lol. We have discovered this before, but it's surprising to find ingredients that I can find fairly easily here in the USA but you can't there in Japan, when it's usually the opposite. In the video, you said you couldn't get water chestnuts. I am not sure if they are the same, but canned water chestnuts are available in the ethnic aisle of every supermarket I have ever been in here and have been for decades. My mother used to buy them in the rural south at least as far back as the 1970s because she always added them to chop suey. Yet, the reverse is true for mushrooms. Most grocery stores here only offer white or brown button mushrooms. But, I can find Lee Kum Kee sauces, like your plum sauce, along with at least one type of Lao Gan Ma, at my regular grocery. But, to get other kinds of mushrooms requires a special trip to an Asian grocery store. Maybe one day shokupan and a few other types of mushrooms will be common here, too. Your dinner looked very delicious! I love seafood and fish and the Prosperity Pot seemed incredible as well. YUM! I feel certain your family had a delicious and memorable holiday. Have a wonderful week!

[@LinnainJapan]

Wow! You have access to Lao Gan ma and the Plum sauce too! Here is Japan most supermarkets carry Chinese and Korean condiments and sauces. But very limited. Just a few popular types. The plum sauce I have looked for many shops in China town and finally found it 😅 and I have never seen canned water chestnut here any where even China town! Japanese Shokupan and mushrooms are really good! But I am not sure is it possible to bring them to your market because they are both fresh products that have very short shelf life. Perhaps learning to bake the Japanese shokupan will be a faster way? 😅 Thank you for sharing the insight of the difference groceries you get! I totally agree and had fun reading 🤗💛💛💛

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

@@LinnainJapan 💖

[@tnjamilla6958]

Hi Linna , ive been watching your vlgs quite regularly, i enjoy watching your daily shopping trips as well as the little ones where you go to different stores. and you spending time with your family...love it thanks for sharing

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much 😊

[@jlnyxxy1095]

新年快乐 Linna! 祝你全家万事如意，心想事成！

[@LinnainJapan]

谢谢你💛 我也祝你虎年快乐，万事如意，心想事成🧧🐯🥳

[@brookefenton4107]

Happy Lunar New Year! Your food looked so delicious, I feel as if I've eaten a feast!

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you always💛🤗 so true indeed! I have definitely eaten too much as the festivals continue! 😮‍💨

[@klairvlogs2230]

Happy lunar new year🥰 thank you for your vlog, i really enjoyed it:)

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you💛 happy lunar new year to you too✨🤗

[@jenniferhargrave6308]

I always get tickled at the endless supply of ice cream at the store! 🥳🍦😍🍨🤤 Always yummy, even in winter!

[@LinnainJapan]

Exactly! I love to have ice cream in winter so they don’t melt so fast! 😅 and ice cream after a nice hot bath is really a treat too 😋😙

[@xiuxiuxiuxiuxiuxiu]

Happy Chinese New Year! Loved all your CNY meals!

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much 😊 have a wonderful day 💛💛💛

[@corinnemelody5111]

Bonjour Linna 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 happy new year ! ☺️ à bientôt

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you! ☺️ I wish you happy and healthy always 💛💛💛

[@LadyLakeMusic]

So interesting!! Wow!! Love learning about your culture and customs. Very enjoyable to watch your families happiness! ❤🍽🎊

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@just_another_Japan_Life_Vlog]

The green onion is so cheap in your supermarket! Happy New Year 🥳

[@LinnainJapan]

Oh really? Usually it’s 100 JPN! And I regrow the roots in water to save for next few days too!🤗

[@Kolossus03]

Loved the over flow pot at the end💙. Great video

[@LinnainJapan]

That is a Chinese dish 🤗

[@Kolossus03]

@@LinnainJapan I don't tolerate much spicy but I would taste anything you make, natto kind of scares me, but i would try.

[@nikiiijello1217]

Happy lunar new year! I love watching you make all your creations! 😁🌺

[@LinnainJapan]

I am so glad you do🥰💛💛💛

[@Kolossus03]

I'm coming to japan just to eat ice cream🤣 so many flavors I never seen here

[@LinnainJapan]

Yes! And each season we also get seasonal flavor 😍

[@Kolossus03]

@@LinnainJapan lucky!

[@arkansayyed7181]

Happy lunar new year Linna and your food looking good and I really loved your vlogs

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you! So sweet of you💛🥰

[@aminaa2373]

Love from India kerala 🇮🇳💓💓

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you very much ☺️ sending back much love from 🇯🇵 💛

[@Kolossus03]

A perfect puzzle this day🤗

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you 😁

[@michaeltestarossa4724]

Gung He Fa Choy. The year of the Tiger. Your cooking still amazes me.

[@LinnainJapan]

Gong Hei Fatt Choi! 🧧🎉 thank you 😊 I am so glad you like my cooking 💛

[@MadeleneMadach]

hey linna i hope you doing well i love your cooking very much my dream is to go to japan to study i love you and your family very very much linna 💖💞 im doing great hehe those ice creams you buying look very good 🤭🤗

[@bagandarby9424]

祝你新年快乐，健康平安 🧧🧨

[@LinnainJapan]

谢谢你💛 也祝你新年快乐🐯万事如意🧧

[@rovicberganio6819]

Happy Lunar New Year😇 stay safe always and Godbless

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you! You too stay safe, stay happy and healthy💛🥰

[@qasimadeel7670]

ITS PRODUCTS LOOK VERY UNIQUE

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you so much

[@gracealim8157]

happy lunar new year..💜💜💜

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you 💛☺️

[@ruthgovender7034]

Happy new year 🍾🥰

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you💛 I wish 2022 a year full with happiness and joys for you🤗✨

[@daysbyrisa]

The food looks amazing! 😍 Hello from Singapore! ☺️

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you 😊💛

[@jackiezilliox261]

Hi there, been enjoying your content and your lovely family life in Japan. I want to make soup with chicken a few times now and I noticed you don’t use any THYME as an herbal flavoring. We were tried it? They go perfectly together. Just a thought from Pennsylvania

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

The quality of your produce over there is intensely impressive. I wince with shame to reflect upon the offerings in UK supermarkets. Nobody here appears to be ashamed of their 5th rate garbage on display for sale-- that's because it's the same as every other supermarket's produce and if nobody else is embarrassed then why should I be, right? It's become 'the norm' and our standards in general are sliding down fast as a society. Fresh produce here is mostly tasteless, bruised, ugly, limp, manhandled garbage. I miss you Japan and I can't wait to return! Thank you Linna for these charming, inspiring, relaxing videos. Educational and very motivational too. I will keep working overtime, forgoing big shopping trips and keep being disciplined in saving my money. I'll be thrilled to have loads to spend when I'm in Tokyo next. I hope everybody has a wonderful year with big adventures and many quiet little joys too.

[@AngelOfTheNorth007]

Happy lunar new year, I prefer my carrots raw, I don’t like cooked carrots.

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you 😊 I like raw carrot 🥕 too but my boys don’t 😅

[@jlnyxxy1095]

By the way, why do the supermarkets price tags have 2 prices? One lower and one higher.

[@LinnainJapan]

They with and without tax! It’s confusing sometimes 😅

[@fransiscachung]

Happy lunar new year! Gong xi fa cai 🙏

[@LinnainJapan]

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy New Year to you too 😍🧧 May the tiger 🐯 brings you lots of happiness, good fortune and good health!🎉

[@fransiscachung]

@@LinnainJapan thank you! You too 🥰🙏

[@kavitashirahatti9795]

Nice

[@LinnainJapan]

Thanks 💛

[@qasimadeel7670]

CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHICH SUPERMARKET IS THIS

[@LinnainJapan]

This is Sanwa Supermarket. Its a chain store you can get around Kanto area

[@pragyaparamitadash207]

Wow didi how you edit these video so fastly

[@LinnainJapan]

Haha, thank you 😂

[@pragyaparamitadash207]

❤

[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you always sweetie💛💛💛

[@fyonays1411]

Have you ever lived in Malaysia before?

[@LinnainJapan]

Haha! 🇲🇾 is my hometown 😃 I guess you can tell from the dishes I cooked? Are you from 🇲🇾 too?

[@fyonays1411]

@@LinnainJapan I asked because I saw the tradition of salad toss that you call it's a must in Malaysia during CNY🙆 wahh you are Malaysians, where are you in Malaysia? I am in the city of Kinabalu, Sabah.🤗

[@LinnainJapan]

@@fyonays1411 haha 😆 you are smart 🥰 I am from Selangor! I visited KK few years ago and I love the seafood there😋😋😋

[@montserratbausaroca4057]

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[@LinnainJapan]

Thank you dear 💛💛💛

[@cariocadom683]

拜登将中国新年说成“Lunar New Year（月亮新年）”，除了偏见、居心叵测，还有他十足的无知！中国的农历,又称为“黄历”“黄帝历”，相传是黄帝命人所作，属于复杂的阴阳历，内容包括： （1）太阳历（Solar Calendar），如二十四节气，将四季更迭的周期（回归年）定为年； （2）月亮历（Lunar Calendar）,如初一、初二......十五......二十九、三十等，把月亮盈亏变化的周期（朔望月）定为月； （3）岁星纪年法（Jupiter Calendar）、干支纪年，如六十年轮回、六十甲子、十二属等，干支纪法以立春为岁首，用60组各不相同的天干地支标记年月日时。 因此，按黄历推算的新年，与太阳、月亮、木星均有关系，绝不是什么简单的“月亮新年（Lunar New Year）”。 不能称“月亮新年（Lunar New Year）”，还有一重要的原因：中国古人称月亮为“太阴”，指阴气极盛的地方。月亮至阴至寒，冻结天地，象征愁思、逝去、死去、万籁俱寂、阴间。如冷月、月高风黑、月坠花折等，唐·杜甫《滟滪》诗：“灧澦既没孤根深，西来水多愁太阴。”《云笈七签》：“将父母遗体，埋于太阴，骨腐于蝼蚁，岂不痛哉！”宋·范成大《丰都观》诗：“云有北阴神帝庭，太阴黑簿囚鬼灵。” 此外，甲骨文、金文“月”与“肉”同形，专指妇女之事，如月事、月经、月子等。 《道德经》：“道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。”“一”是阳，“二”是阴，太阴是太阳生的。正如太阳系，太阳系中的所有行星都是太阳生的，都属于太阳。因此，以“月亮年（Lunar Year）”标志一年的开端（Lunar New Year），极不妥当，极不吉利，是相学中的大忌！ 如果谁喜欢“Lunar New Year”，祝他“月亮新年快乐”，相当于祝他尽早进入万籁俱寂的极乐世界！ 中国人过年，最早可以追溯到夏朝（公元前2070年--前1600年）。甲骨文“年”字，上部是“禾”，下部是“刀”，是秋收的意思。《说文解字》：“年，谷熟也。”谷物收割、收藏，是一年的结束。因此，夏朝以“冬至”当作岁首，“冬至”为太阳历节气。汉朝开始改年为正月初一，称之为元日、岁日、元正，后来又称为新年，民国年间才有了“春节”的称呼。“过年”的这些称呼，对周边的汉文化圈都有影响，在日本、朝韩、越南等古书中均能查到。现在老美鼓噪一帮愤青，硬要颠倒历史，蚍蜉撼树谈何易。 中国人的“过年”，翻译成英文，根本没有对等的词汇，称“Chinese New Year”属于解释性的译法，在世界上早已众所周知，英文中也没有不好的含义。有人说“Lunar New Year”表示“农历新年”或“阴历新年”，这是掩耳盗铃、糊弄不懂英文的人。lunar意思是“of or relating to or associated with the moon”，是“属于或关于或与月球有关的”，“Lunar New Year”传达的是“月亮的新年”的含义。退一万步讲，即便将“农历新年”或“阴历新年”翻译成“Lunar Calendar New Year”，距离中国人的“过年”也差十万八千里！

[@LinnainJapan]

谢谢你的解说。也谢谢你收看。

[@prachibansal6670]

Are you Chinese? Or do you know Chinese...either way should make videos and probably teach it too..🤣🤣🤣

[@LinnainJapan]

I am Malaysian but I know Chinese! Haha! Should I consider that? 😂🤣

[@prachibansal6670]

@@LinnainJapan definitely! I would be your first student. 🙋🏻‍♀️🙈