"Syojin" cuisine in NAGANO

In Japan we have "Syojin" cuisine which are vegetarian dishes of Buddhism.

Buddhist monks are forbidden to destruct lives, "Syojin" cuisine are dishes which are cooked with various ideas of using vegetables,beans,grain(cereals) and so on except for meats.

We have an event of walking at Zenkoji in Nagano.
At that day,we ate "Syojin" cuisine for lunch at a shukubo "Enjoin".
Shukubo is lodgings for pilgrims at a temple.












There was templa and something like sashimi,but all templas are vegetables and something like sashimi was Yuba.
（Yuba is rolled the thin film made from the soybeans.It's good.)
Other dishes were not meats or fishses at all,the main protein was dishes which made from soybeans as vegetable protein.(Yuba,sesame dofu)

It's tastes were very good!
I did not feel thing insufficient.

It's Japanese style.











This is the entrance.












The event of this day
http://foods.naganoblog.jp/e1108981.html

You can eat it here
http://www.fuchinobo.or.jp/syojin.html

この記事の日本語版
http://foods.naganoblog.jp/e1092481.html

門前まち花遊歩～牛に引かれて善光寺参り～（この日のイベントです）
http://foods.naganoblog.jp/e1091855.html

善光寺宿坊
http://www.zenkoji.jp/syukubou/index2.html