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The Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, is a Chinese festival celebrating the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in mythology. The Double Seventh Festival (Qixi Festival) is one of Chinese traditional festivals, and also known as a Chinese Valentine's Day. It's based on a romantic legend about a weaver girl and an ox herd. The Qixi Festival in southern Fujian and Taiwan is also the birthday of Qiniangma, who is This Qixi Festival tradition celebrates people's wish to give birth.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook qixi festival themed somen noodles using 28 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles:
- Make ready 200 grams Somen noodles
- Take Thin omelets (usuyaki tamago)
- Prepare 2 Eggs
- Get Seasonings for eggs
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ☆Sugar
- Make ready 1 ☆ Salt
- Make ready Tsukudani-style stewed shiitake mushrooms
- Make ready 8 Shiitake mushrooms
- Prepare Seasonings for shiitake mushrooms
- Prepare 180 ml ○Dashi stock
- Make ready 1 tsp ○ Sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp ○ Sake
- Make ready 1 and 1/2 teaspoons ○ Soy sauce
- Take 1 tsp ○ Mirin
- Get 1 Cucumber
- Take 4 Okras
- Take 1 Mentsuyu
- Take 1 Vegetable oil
- Prepare Garnishes
- Make ready 1/3 Spring onions (chopped)
- Prepare 1 Myoga ginger (thinly sliced)
- Get 1/2 small piece Grated ginger
- Take 1 as required Ground sesame seeds
- Get Rice balls with mentaiko and shirasu
- Take 2 small bowlfuls Cooked Japanese rice
- Prepare 2 Mentaiko
- Prepare 50 grams Shirasu baby sradines
- Prepare 10 Shiso leaves (jjulienned)
Qixi Festival is China's Valentine's Day. Qixifestival is a story about Niulang and Zhinü. Another custom is children picking bunches of wild flowers and hang them on the horns of oxen in honor of the legendary ox or people making skill fruits: nice, thin fried pastries of different shapes. The Complete Guide to the Qixi Festival.
Instructions to make Qixi Festival Themed Somen Noodles:
- Tsukudani-style stewed shiitake mushrooms: Remove the stems of shiitake mushrooms and slice into 5mm widths. Put the shiitake and ○ shiitake seasonings in a sauce pan and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Thin omelets: Beat the eggs and heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Spread the beaten egg thinly and evenly in the frying pan and make thin omelets. After it has cooled, slice the omelets thinly.
- Julienne the cucumber. Blanch the okras and slice into 5 mm.
- Cook the somen in plenty of boiling water. Rinse and drain well.
- Divide the somen into 4 portions, and arrange in balls on a serving plate. Arrange the Step 3 cucumber on top.
- Lay the Step 2 omelets diagonally to the somen noodles and put the shiitake mushrooms on the side. Scatter the sliced okra on top, pour the mentsuyu and serve with as much garnishes as you prefer.
- Rice balls with mentaiko and shirasu: Make slits on the mentaiko membrane and remove the roe. Put the rice, mentaiko, shiso leaves and shirasu in a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon without squashing the rice grains.
- Form into rice balls and it's done.
Another custom is children picking bunches of wild flowers and hang them on the horns of oxen in honor of the legendary ox or people making skill fruits: nice, thin fried pastries of different shapes. The Complete Guide to the Qixi Festival. Qixi Festival - The lowdown on this romantic day. The so-called Chinese Valentine's Day is coming. Qixi Festival - Traditional Food for Qixi Festival.
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