水羊羹 Mizu Yokan
Mizu Yokan is the Japanese summer sweet made of Azuki(sweet red bean), sugar and agar. A kind of jelly. Yokan is much thicker and last long like a few month but Mizu Yokan is more delicate with much softer and juicy texture. Torindo Nezu has a little table to rest and have some sweets&maccha.
水羊羹/抹茶 Mizu Youkan/Maccha
At Torindo.
桃林堂 Torindo
Japanese sweet confectionery shop in Nezu.
I found a nice cooling system. Clear and cool water is overflowing from the ceramic pot with silence. It makes the atmosphere so cool without any modern cooling system. Amazingly calm and relaxing moment.
Top of the vinyard hill at Coco farm winery in Ashikaga city, Tochigi prefecture.
Hi(干)gashi(菓子)
Japanese dry confectionary.
Good in colour and shape.
People, especially in Japan, likely to belong to a major group. People try to have a similar situation with somebody else. Once they know that ‘many’ people are doing something, they have to start doing that something immediately.
To survive in Japan is easy; you just need to do is following others. Do same things with others, buy best selling products, visit restaurants where always queues are in front, and please DO NOT make anything different from others.
I always find a funny thing in a raining day. You can easy understand how people are living in the Japanese society.
Let’s try to watch people when they come out from train stations or shops.
You can see all the people open their umbrellas as soon as they come out from roof.
It is what you do and quite understandable, isn’t it?
So do I.
BUT, What the funny thing is, you hardly ever seen people wondering if it is still raining.
How do they know if it is raining before being under umbrellas?
Easy!
‘Because peole come out from stations with are opening umbrellas!!’
Why are they doing that??
‘Why? Because people on a street are under their umbrellas.’
To seeing others under their umbrellas means ‘It is raining. you have to open your umbrella now!’ in Japan. It really doesn’t matter if it is raining or not. Even if it stopped, people have to follow others to open umbrellas as long as they see others under their umbrellas outside.
This is just an example of how the Japanese society works.
Christmas Dollree ;)
My Santa has arrived this morning.
Thanks, Aya:)
