鍋 Nabe ～ Simple, Warm, and Delicious!

Late November in Japan started to get cold. The season is slowly changing from Autumn to Winter. That's why many Japanese people starting to eat warm food more, including my host family! And one of the food we usually eat is Nabe!

Nabe or Nabemono is basically food boiled in a pot. You can put anything in Nabe (well, except sweets, of course). My host family usually put meat, vegetable, mushroom, and udon. Nabe is served in dining table with portable stove to keep it hot. The seasoning is very simple. Just shoyu, salt, and sugar. As an Indonesian who usually eat food with many spices, I think I wouldn't be so good, but I was wrong. It was really delicious! Not only it tasted good, it also warmed my body.

I've eaten nabe 3 times when I was in Japan. Two times home-made and once in a restaurant. The restaurant we went is specialize in spicy Nabe, so the nabe has many spices in it. It was really good! Although it's not spicy at all (lol). We also have nabe party in our house with other host family!

Nabe in cold weather is the best!