Miso Soup Mystery flavour

[Anoku]

Bought a pack of instant 味噌汁 yesterday, 8 sachets, 4 different flavours:
のり (nori, seaweed 海苔)
うめ (ume, Japanese plum, 梅, right?)
さけ (sake, I assume here it means 鮭, rather than 酒 ^^)
(Do let me know if I got any of them wrong!)

It is the last one that has got me baffled: 野沢菜
Now I recognize 野菜 as 'vegetable' (yasai), right? (I know, it is not used in that way here!)
And 沢 (sawa) is 'swamp'
I've also looked up 野 and 菜 individually, to see if they could be found as a compound like 野沢 or 沢菜
So far no luck, anyone who can enlighten me please? Don't tell me it is 'Swamp-vegetable'!

I've checked wwwjdic, my electronic dictioaries, my Lighthouse J-E printed version, googled miso soup flavours, visited the manufacturer's website but got nowhere so far.

On the package it shows a pic with 4 bowls; they show a typical bowl of 味噌汁 with rice in the middle and a (as we would say on packaging here, a 'serving suggestion' ) topping to represent the four flavours, obviously. 鮭 and 海苔 are easy to spot, which leaves 2. One is most likely 梅 (If I'm correct, the arrangement of the bowls in the pic matches the arrangement of the coloured boxes with the flavour in it to the left. It looks like some kind of chopped green vegetable (hmm.. 野菜...), like a french bean cooked and chopped up.

Edit: Found a picture of it by using google images to search for 野沢菜 and this seemed to be the most common result: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/shirakaba/051/. Looks like some kind of plant stem, not a bean and I seem to read something about it being pickled. Still not sure what it is or how to read it, so help still welcome!

Also, I'm just wondering why のり うめ and さけ were all written in ひらがな but not 野沢菜 (no furigana provided on the package)?

[NocturnalOcean]

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/野沢菜

[Anoku]

のざわな

Thanks! I like to know what I eat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozawana

[coco]

Excuse me, but didn't you buy お茶漬け instead of 味噌汁？

[Yudan Taiteki]

I was wondering about うめ and さけ miso soup, which were totally unfamiliar to me -- お茶漬け makes more sense.

[Anoku]

Excuse me, but didn't you buy お茶漬け instead of 味噌汁？

Yes, you're absolutely right. IME won't work on my XP whatever I try so I have to copy/paste all Kanji/kana and didn't notice it hadn't copied correctly and thus also wrote about miso soup when I should have written about a Mystery Ochazuke Flavour.

I'm a noob

Thanks for correcting me, learned something!

[AJBryant]

I don't know what it says about me, but I *love* 野沢菜.


Tony

[two_heads_talking]

well shoot, and here I thought there were only 3 types of miso.. clear, brown and red.. lol

No really. I don't remember what they names were from back then, but there were always 3 larger bag like packages.. each one having one of the 3 aforementioned miso pastes in it..

[Harisenbon]

I don't know what it says about me, but I *love* 野沢菜.

Me as well.
Of course, I love almost all 漬物

[AJBryant]

I don't know what it says about me, but I *love* 野沢菜.

Me as well.
Of course, I love almost all 漬物

Ditto. Mmmm. Low-cal, too.

[Anoku]

I don't know what it says about me, but I *love* 野沢菜.

Me as well.
Of course, I love almost all 漬物

Ditto. Mmmm. Low-cal, too.

Apparently August 21 is 'National Pickle Day' in Japan
I'm pretty much hooked on 紅生姜, there's a small shop a few streets down from me that sells jars of it.

[becki_kanou]

Mmmmmm! I love 漬け物 too. My favorite is 長い芋 pickled in either 梅 or 柚子.

And of course キムチ.

[furrykef]

And of course キムチ.

I still wonder how people can eat stuff that smells so bad. (My Korean aunt used to make it all the time.)

[becki_kanou]

And of course キムチ.

I still wonder how people can eat stuff that smells so bad. (My Korean aunt used to make it all the time.)

De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess...

[AJBryant]

And of course キムチ.

I still wonder how people can eat stuff that smells so bad. (My Korean aunt used to make it all the time.)

De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess...

I've been known to use that line myself.

I *love* kimchi, but don't get to buy it too often (the best place that sells it is a bit of a drive). I'm always looking for new things to do with it.


Tony