Reason why I have tried miso soup in 15 countries while traveling

Hello!World newspaperA special reporterMiya Yatabeis. In order to have overseas people eat miso soup which is "mumukuro's taste" for Japanese people for 1 year and 8 months since departing for a round-the-world trip,We have served miso soup in 15 countries around the world. This time I have picked up 7 countries as a summary of that.

◆ Countries that have acted so far
Asia:Mongolia,Malaysia,Indonesia,Thailand,Myanmar,India,Nepal
middle east:Iran,Turkey
Europe:Italy,Monaco,France
Caribbean:Cuba
South America:Peru,Columbia

◆ I tried to behave miso soup
To the last, as I entered the journey I was beginning to admire the performance beyond words and cultural barriers. When I thought that a person who can sing a song, play a guitar, or draw a picture is okay, "I do not need anything technical, so it is Japanese, so Japanese ' I made taste "miso soup!" By chance, I knew Miso shop that I love miso and will not stop so I ordered miso to arrange for traveling. It gave me a pleasant OK and it was carried to be executed in this way.

◆ How did you behave miso soup, examples in Cuba


The kitchen at the house that I stayed in Cuba for several weeks was very stormy. There is one kitchen knife that can not be cut like nata, there is no chopping board, and a rice cooker (center of the picture) and one iron pan each. Forgotten eggs are gone long before the next distribution date ... ....


Local procurement of ingredients
Well, what I always care about when making miso soup is to procure local ingredients. As much as possible, I will use ingredients that can be picked up in the land so as to match the taste of the other party. At this time, we went to the market where the farmers sold the surplus produced vegetables and meat.


Purchased were sweet potatoes, onions, sweet carrots, turnips, okra, onion meat, lamb meat.


·cooking
For Cuban cuisine, the image of a fancy seasoned flavor that makes use of the taste of the material is strong, and the presence of meat is also important. I decide to make a miso soup with a full volume that will fill my stomach just by eating it, with a tastefully sour pork juice.

Cut all the vegetables ... ...


Boiled from root crops, vegetables that are easy to pass through fire, such as turnips, green onions, and leaves, have also been added.


This is an important miso. The natural flavor stands out,Echigo Nagaoka Miso brewing Tabana miso. To prepare miso soup which will be eaten for the first time with luxury miso, the nose is high as a chef. Finally blush this ... ...


It was completed. Okra is a tortoise, potatoes are rice cake, fresh goat meat is also huge! Miso is well blended in vegetables and meat, it is a good finish.


· Communication born from miso soup
Mother said "Beautiful!" Dad bought me at once in a delicious, delicious manner whether he was hungry. My daughter smiled. I think that the reason why the Cuban people who are not familiar with miso tastes good is because they used the ingredients familiar. To make the whole family smile, I am happy!


One time, my daughter 's daughter said to me: "If you become a dentist in the future, you may be able to go abroad with the Cuban government doctor export program." I was watching her appearing seriously, so its fruit was conveyed. People who wish to have a better living in socialist Cuba and capitalist Japan are the same, I thought that it is true that there are people striving for each. By sourcing miso soup, you can get deeper communication.


A detailed story is posted in this article.

I tried acting miso soup in Cuba which is still being distributed - GIGAZINE


◆ 6 impressions of miso soup making
From here, I will introduce six miso soup making which remained particularly impressive.

1. Iran having a scary image, but ...


When I went out, Iran had a stuffy impression on unfamiliar rules, such as all foreign women of tourists must wear a scarf on their heads and drink not to drink. But entering a country one step, the whole town is clean and the people are very kind. Men actively will try to help you on directions and so on. The woman was shy, but only the gentle people who smiled back when the eyes met.

One day, I met Bali of the Persian carpet collector and decided to eat Iranian type breakfast and miso soup side by side on the Persian carpet. To the simple vegetables of potatoes and onions, we added fragrant grass just picked from the garden, finished in a fragrant flavor that fits omelets and bread. The miso soup placed on the ornate carpet seems to melt into the table of Iran completely and I learned the illusion that miso soup is welcomed by Iran. "Iranians are kind!", I think that I want to conclude so.

2. At the Kurdish house living in the Turkish border


At the end of the east of Turkey there is an area where the largest ethnic Kurds without a state live. I stayed at home with an unknown stranger who met in a streetdrop, and behaves rice. Muslims are famous for their kindness to the guests, but the "Kurdish people" who were strangely kind in the Islamic area were impressive. They said, "Even if someone in the family is killed, it is the culture of Kurdo to respect the possibility of holding it, as much as we can put the criminal at home."

A group of Kurds stayed at me at the house I met in a street like the example, and they enjoyed meals. I thank you for that I would like you to make Japanese miso soup by all means, I decided to cook with vegetables such as eggplants and green objects that were in the garden. Together with my daughters we took vegetables happily and prepared, but when we finished and saw the miso soup in the breakfast table, they did not eat just by tasting. Instead, fried potatoes ceased fierce fight at a stroke ... ....

3. A happy family figure in southern France


I wake up slowly on Sunday and have my family cook dishes with cooked beef meat at noon. My husband is working on making wine, but at that time it was off the season. On weekdays, with a smiley wife and a traveler volunteer like me, I am going to the eco house under construction in the country and having fun working. Why does this family seem happy? It must be good for food and a culture climate it! I thought.

I decided to make miso soup the night before yesterday when I parted from the happy family. As soon as it got to the village market and went to buy and saw there, there were cheese, smoked meat, and fruits / vegetables / dried mushrooms which I had never seen before. I was amazed at the richness of the food in southern France. And the miso soup made is a miso soup made with a lot of stew like a straw. It became a big echo that the substitution can not stop. Everyone takes a good meal and is happy. I think that the secret of happiness is exhausted to this.

4. In India burn a cow dung ... ...


I met in Buddha Gaya in India's poorest province was a drunken little girl who invited me to buy chai. Although I did a dubious way of encountering, I could not hate for some reason and became friends without feeling unexpected. As you already guessed, I decided to make miso soup by bothering my drunken little grandmother.

If you arrive home, look up at the ceiling from the kitchen and the blue sky. Fire is dry cow dung fuel. There is no water service and draw well water. It was a poor house. There is no chopping board, a kitchen knife is a thing that goes to apply vegetables to the blade while holding down a handle with a foot. I do not know the selfishness of burning cow dung with fuel. I cooperated with my wife and daughter firmly, and a spicy miso soup was completed. I think that India that makes such experiences is still amazing. And finally I can not forget the words my daughter said. "In reality, father is honest and good person." I am drunk, but I guess that is really a good person. Miso soup is extra, the leading role is family. I like this kind of development quite a lot.

5. To the Sherpa tribe in Himalaya, with a meaning of thanks from the bottom of my heart


I tried trekking for 22 days with the aim of 5416 m in Nepal and Himalayas. I prayed with my breathtaking scenery back, and I learned that people who are quietly living are long ago. At the lodge operated by an elderly couple who was in the 3300 m point, I met Sherpa tribe Sonan who worked as a helper. Tourists like me can walk in the mountains only when there are supporters like Mr. Sonan. I thought that it would not be normal for me to make warm dishes using firewood carried by livestock and livestock, and to provide accommodation.

I made miso soup using cabbage brought from one low altitude village. Sherpa tribe usually says to eat things like roasted wheat flour and porridge · handmade bread · soup stocked udon. It was all the food I thought was really tasty. I smelled cabbage miso soup made from a cold mountain cabinet to Mr. Sonan, smiled first, and a smile got smeared from the face of sunburning and dry sonan.

6. Are ingredients other than mutton acceptable in Mongolia accepted?


"I do not eat foods that fly in the sky, I eat only four-legged animals." It is a dialog that I heard from Mongolians several times. I will eat horses and yaks, but there will be no meat that is eaten as much as sheep and goats. The way of thinking was the same even in the country that lived milking, drinking water and wood-burning life, even in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar where half of the population in Mongolia live.

However, in Mongolia with sheep meat, miso soup made with boiled dish was surprisingly uke. In countries where food culture is distant, there is a tendency that reaction to miso soup is not good. Who is the Mongolian? It was a very worrisome thing that I feel close to somewhere, although they should be far from those of nomadic living.

◆ Why I rank miso soup in 15 countries around the world
Let's give miso soup to people around the world as a pleasing performance! This journey started from the idea of. But the essence lies in whether or not it will lead us to be accepted.

There is reasonable fate to get food eaten by himself. Moreover, since miso soup is "the taste of the mumsukuro", its consideration is quite a thing, it also overlaps with the self-image which I have fostered the background etc which I grew up. If so, I really care about whether miso soup is pleasing to the partner or if it is greedy it is delicious. Therefore, it is relieved to a word of "delicious", it depresses subtle expressions and leaves of miso soup. When saying the time of depression, for example, "Hello, I am Japanese, this is Miso soup, thank you!" When introducing yourself in a foreign country, I was disliked ... It might be that way.

It is not easy to get a word of "delicious" on foreign land, but on the contrary, when I made a miso soup for a Japanese who I met on a traveling day one day I was delighted with the greatest grade. So, in order to change ideas and make them happy with the local people, it came to think that they will continue to use the ingredients they are familiar with more and more. At that moment when I made a dream come true to the other party, the expression of the other person reflected brightly, it was fun and it was useless.

As a part of ourselves, we will try to compromise ourselves with the hands of "mother's taste" that overlap ourselves. And enjoy it. Recently, this is the reason why I travel a miso soup! I think. Miso is now a partner of a journey that I can no longer let go. I am planning to continue making miso soup for several months of the remaining trip, aiming for miso soup that local people will be delighted with.

Statement · Interview: Miya Yatabehttps://misodamaworld.wordpress.com/

Supervision: World newspaperSekaishinbun.net