Japanese food ~7~ B-1 Grand Prix

  B-1 Grand Prix was held at Kita Kyusyu city(The north area of Kyusyu) on 21th.
B-1 Grand Prix is big food festival which is held every year.
And a lot of group from each region in Japan join it.
  The biggest event is the competition of each region's dish.
In this year, the Hachinohe Senbei Jiru won the first prize.
Hachinohe is the city of Aomori which is located in the north of Japan.
Senbei is Senbei. I introduced on this blog before.
Japan. http://kamesamajapankamesama.blogspot.jp/2012/10/japanese-food-1-sweets-senbei.html
Jiru means ''soup''.

                                                            (from  Wikipedia)

The chiken,burdock, a long green onion and Senbei( special kind of Senbei  It is not broken
into pieces in the boiled soup)

  This event started to develop the each region's industry 7 years ago.
News paper reports 63 group entried in this year and 610000 people(the sponsor's release)
came to the event.
  You can guess how much Japanese people are curious about gourmet.
The audiences vote to the favorite group after they eat. The way to voting is to put ''Waribashi''
in the box named each group. And they  compete which box is the heaviest.
 Oh, do you know Waribashi?
Waribashi is like this.

Wari means split
bashi means chopsticks.

  It is said the winner's region of  this competition    acieve huge economic growth
because a lot of Japanese people try the winner's cooking.
 For example, the winner's region  in 2008 earned 3000000000 yen just for 3 months!
(30,000,000 Euro 37,509,000 US dollar)
You know, Japanese people are very curious of delicious food.
I think winner's dish is not so expensive. Maybe it is 500~700 yen in average.
Because, B-1 Grand Prix is the shoten word of ''B-class gourmet''.

 I am working at Japanese restaurant. I will talk with my friend how about we challenge this
competition in the future.

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