In my house, my father made plenty hot water in two big iron pot and filled a tub with hot water. After our brothers and sisters have a bath in a washtub by turns, we eat cold watermelon that cool in the well or shaved ice. That is a wonderful memory. Eggplant and cucumber are typical vegetable in summer. We eat pickled eggplant every day in my house.
Thick cucumber is also good vegetable in summer.
We eat cucumber topped with a sticky sauce or with sake-kasu dressing . I like so sake-kasu that I licked my fingaer with help my mother and used to be slightly drunk. We often eat vegetable with sesame paste We eat also tofu every day. We eat tofu as chilled. And I could not eat loach since.