"Doraemon's props have conjured up countless Japanese dishes."
If you had a four-dimensional pocket filled with magical items, what would life look like? The manga Doraemon, which was born 50 years ago, answers this question perfectly.
This film was directed by Fujiko The national manga created by F. Fujio, which takes the "sub-supply direction" route in the setting, that is, the main audience is young children, began to be serialized in the Japanese manga magazine "Elementary School Students 1-4 Grades" in 1970, and has won many children's readers around the world.
Nowadays, the children of that year have grown up, recalling the various magical props of the "blue fat man" in their childhood, and they will still show their eyes full of yearning. Many of these various props are also about food, after all, eating is also the top priority in life in the eyes of children!
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Foodie table cloth
In a look at Doraemon, Nobita's mother, Ms. Nobita, hurried back to her mother's house to visit her sick mother. After mom left, the task of cooking for Nobita and Doraemon was given to Nobita's father, Nobita Nobita. However, his father's cooking skills are too flattering. At this time, Doraemon pulled out a foodie tablecloth and saved the family who was about to faint from hunger.
The magic of this tablecloth is that no matter what you want to eat, just read the name of the food to it, and the corresponding food will appear immediately. Here, in addition to the regular Japanese ramen and eel rice, Doraemon also ordered a drink called Fruit Punch.
Once popular in Hong Kong tea restaurants in the 70s and 80s, this drink is mostly made of pineapple juice, orange juice and red pomegranate syrup formulated with Qixi soda, which is a non-alcoholic drink, and Punch in a broad sense can actually use wine or other spirits as a base wine to make a slightly drunk cocktail.
After drinking and eating, Nobita and Doraemon did not forget to take the tablecloth to show off to Fat Tiger, Xiaofu and Shizuka. Friends have begun to order food, whether it is the French Burgundy style snail, or the Japanese love to eat champagne steamed square head fish, or even the Dongpo meat from China, have been conjured up by Nobita one by one for everyone to eat.
At this time, Ms. Tamako, in order to make a delicious dinner for Nobita and Nobita's father, was rushing home in a hurry, she thought she would see a family that was mentally weakened because she had not eaten a good meal, but she did not expect to push open the door of the house, only to see that the dinner of a family of three was actually delicious, and there was no difference between her and her, so she got angry.
This familiar scene is reminiscent of the leopard lady Luo Meilan in the Korean drama "Please Answer 1988" who also sulked because she returned home after many days away, and everyone was living in an orderly manner as usual. It can be seen that in East Asian culture, many mothers will "be needed by their families" as a kind of self-worth confirmation, and this cute and delicate family characteristic is repeatedly described by various literary and artistic works such as Japanese comics and Korean dramas, giving people endless warmth.
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Momotaro glutinous rice dumplings
In the Doraemon series SP (i.e. Special), there is an episode called "The Masquerade Queen Who Meets Nobita". In this episode, Nobita travels back to the Paleolithic era with his friends and encounters a ferocious saber-toothed tiger. At this time, Doraemon took out the prop "Momotaro Glutinous Rice Dumplings". As long as the saber-toothed tiger eats this glutinous rice dumpling, it will be tamed and become docile and harmless.
In Japanese folklore, Momotaro was originally a boy born in peaches, who was originally picked up by an old woman who washed clothes by the river. Later, Momotaro heard that there was a mischievous yokai on Devil's Island, so he embarked on a journey to exorcise the demon. On the way, he gave the glutinous rice dumplings he carried with him as dry food to hungry white dogs, monkeys, and pheasants, and the small animals ate them to repay Momotaro and helped him surrender the youkai.
When it comes to glutinous rice dumplings, we have to mention Japanese wagashi. Washo is a generic term for Japanese confectionery and is often used as a tea to accompany tea, and can be said to be a by-product of Japanese tea ceremony culture. Originally, Japan's tea ceremony culture was brought back to China by the Envoys of the Tang Dynasty of Japan at that time, which included the skills of making cakes and cakes.
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A wide variety of Wagashi pastries are also divided into raw, semi-raw and dried fruits according to the water content. Doraemon's "Momotaro Glutinous Rice Dumplings" belongs to a kind of raw fruit, which can be roughly classified as a mochi in the heap of fruits, with a short shelf life, fresh food requirements, soft and sticky to eat, and grass cakes in southern Fujian.
Nowadays, Japan's professional washiko masters are called "washoku workers", they often combine flowers, birds, fish and insects, landscape and water objects for dim sum design, and take materials from waka and haiku, and crown the washiko with elegant names such as "Jinyu Soup", "Tennokawa", "Moon Reiko", "Falling Goose" and so on, and the exquisite and delicate Japanese aesthetic style can be seen from it.
Super flowing water noodles
In addition to the adventures of family affection and friends, one of the highlights of "Doraemon" lies in the ignorant and simple teenage love between Nobita and Shizuka. Once, Shizuka wanted to eat flowing water vegetarian noodles, and Nobita asked Doraemon to come up with its prop "Super Flowing Water Vegetarian Noodles" in order to let her have a different experience of flowing water noodles.
The flowing water vegetarian noodles here are a special kind of japanese cold noodles, and the noodles themselves are ordinary noodles with a relatively weak taste, which is not surprising, and its highlight is the "form of eating". The Japanese would split the bamboo in half, hollow out the bamboo knots, polish the inner walls of the bamboo and connect the roots to form a water channel. When eating, the spring water is poured into the bamboo canal, and the cooked noodles are put into the water from the upstream, the noodles swim along the water, and the diners can sit in a row around the bamboo canal and eat with chopsticks, which has the taste of the ancient Chinese Wei and Jin Yashi in the bamboo forest wilderness.
Doraemon's "Super Flowing Water Noodles" prop can instantly stitch together a bamboo canal of unlimited length, making it difficult for even people who are miles away to eat instantly. In the hot summer, Shizuka ate a mouthful of vegetarian noodles with a strong taste and cool heat in the hot and dry station, so she sincerely exclaimed: "This is the best vegetarian noodle i have ever eaten!" It is no wonder that many years later, Shizuka will choose to marry Nobita, a seemingly mediocre person who is actually good at providing emotional value.
In Volume 25 of the Doraemon Collector's Edition, Shizuka's father once said this to Shizuka, who was about to marry: "Nobi, a young man, will pray for the happiness of others and grieve for the misfortunes of others, which is the most important thing for a person." This is the father-in-law's recognition of the son-in-law, and it is also fujiko's teacher who uses the role to affirm those who are ordinary but always walking among all sentient beings.
Nobita may be the most inconspicuous member of the general public, or even more mean, he is a less ideal loser image, which is a very "anti-climactic" character image, which is very different from the "cool work" of the protagonist's natural talent and counterattack. But his small and ordinary advantages such as his gentleness, justice and kindness are delicately portrayed by the creators in a realistic tone in one sentence after another, and are given a sublime meaning.
It can be seen that the background of "Doraemon" is full of warmth and kindness, and it is using soft words to offer a touch to the stumbling people in the world - it is also good to be an ordinary person