New Years Day Breakfast in the Japans

There is a traditional breakfast that families prepare and eat on New Years Day. I'm calling it breakfast, but we ate it at about noon. As you can see from the pics, it is a bunch of different kinds of foods separated and put neatly into those plastic box things. The big fish is a "tai". In English, I don't know what it's called, so chill. All you need to know is that it's fish. Everybody takes their chopsticks and picks at it like vultures tearing apart a carcass. It's pretty rockin'. The person who is the same sign as the current year gets to pick at it first. This year was the bull, so Yuko got to go first. In the soup, there is mochi. Without eating mochi, your new year celebration is fake. We'll continue to eat all this stuff over the next couple of days until it runs out. There are reserves in addition to what you see in the pics, so it lasts a while.