Powdered green tea
I’d like to talk about this summer vacation. It was longer than ever and I had no homework, so I could enjoy the summer vacation more.
At the beginning of August, I spent time working part-time as a tutor. I teach English to high school students. Now I have eight students from Thursday to Saturday. Some are friendly and others are not, but all of them listen carefully to me, so I think I should be getting better at teaching. I want to carry on doing this job for a long time.
In the middle of August, I went to Kobe for the first time in my life. It is a very beautiful city. For example, it has many high buildings and they have mirror-like walls reflecting the blue sky. Kobe was so bright that I couldn’t believe it had been destroyed in a great earthquake. I ate the Ishidatami of powdered green tea―the cake and green tea ice are in harmony!―at Sweets Harbor. That day a typhoon was coming, but the weather was fine, so I enjoyed sightseeing very much.
The rest of the vacation I enjoyed having fun with my junior high school and high school friends, working part-time, doing housework (especially cooking), and studying English a little.
I went to Kyoto for sightseeing in the last week of September. I saw Ginkakuji temple, Kiyomizu temple, Yasaka shrine and so on. The large Japanese garden of Ginkakuji was so leafy and mossy, and there was a big pudding made of sand called “Kogetsudai”.
I ate Tsujiri’s powdered green tea parfait in Gion. It was very delicious! When I went to Kyoto station to return home, there was a sweeping staircase and I found that it has 254 steps by climbing from top to bottom. Kyoto is an old traditional city and has another goodness than Kobe. I love both of them!
Thus, thanks to the joyful travel and nice friends I really enjoyed my vacation. I’ll never forget these summer days.
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Comments (10)
Rudolf
wrote on October 21, 2005:
I went on a quick trip to Kyoto back in July. Your post reminded me that I had a batch of photos from that trip that I hadn’t processed yet, so I’ve just uploaded a few.
Kyoto Station seems a bit sombre and heavy to me.
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Bee
wrote on October 22, 2005:
I have been teaching English for many years at a high school here in Brazil. Here is a photo of one of my classes. It was taken for the project A Day on Earth
I enjoy cooking and would love to discover what the powdered green tea parfait tastes like. Is this a popular dessert in Japan? Do you have a recipe?
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Mayu
wrote on October 24, 2005:
Those are the very good memories.
I want to go to Kyoto! And eat the powdered green tea parfait in Gion.
Now I am eating some raw Yastuhasi.
-The raw Yastuhasi is Kyoto’s souvenir…
It’s delicious.
I want to go there more and more.
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Yuna
wrote on October 27, 2005:
Thanks for your comments!!
This is the Tsujiri’s powdered green tea parfait.
I’m sorry I don’t have any recipe because it is made in Tsujiri only. If you want to eat it, please go to Tsujiri and enjoy it!
I want to go there again and again too!!
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Yuna
wrote on October 27, 2005:
I also took the photo of Tsujiri’s powdered green tea parfait! I can’t look at this photo without reminding of its delicious taste:-D
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Bee
wrote on October 31, 2005:
Thank you for the photos of the parfait, Yuna. It looks yummy and it must be very refreshing. Unfortunately , Tsujiri is a long way from where I am so I’ll have to make do with the photos.
And what is yastuhasi, Mayu?
Here in Brazil, especially in the south, we find a lot of typical Japanese food due to the massive wave of immigration in the 19th and 20th century. Japanese food like sushi, sashimi, tempura, temaki, gyoza can be found everywhere now and has become as popular as Italian pizza and Argentinian barbecues.
Have any of you ever tasted any Brazilian food?
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Mayu
wrote on November 12, 2005:
Hi Bee.
Yatuhasi is wraped with a soft thin rice cake and contains sweet bean paste. Try it!
Maybe I haven’t tasted any Brazilian food.Please tell me about food.
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Bee
wrote on November 16, 2005:
Hmmm, both look delicious. I must ask for them next time I go to a Japanese restaurant.
As for Brazilian food, well, you get an enormous variety, because Brazil is an immense country with immigrants who came from all over the world. So I could spend hours talking about it not only because I love cooking but also eating it in good company, don’t you?
Let me start with drinks and appetizers – the most popular is caipirinha, which is made with the local sugar cane alcohol, sugar and crushed lime. Likewise, we use all many other fruit to prepare the same drink with different flavours – they are then called caipirinha de maracujá (passion fruit), caipirinha de abacaxi (pineapple) or caipirinha de cajú (cashew).
These are best drunk outdoors, on the terrace in the countryside or with your feet in the sand facing the sea.
You may also serve some fried manioc , cold cuts or some fried shrimp
Now, I will not toast Italian way, because I know that in Japan this does not sound good but this is what we would say when raising our glasses :-)
What do you say in Japanese when toasting?
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Mayu
wrote on November 22, 2005:
Thank you for your coment and photo about Brazilian food. I didn’t know it at all. I want to drink and eat on the beach. I am sure to feel great.
“Cheers!” equal maybe…”kanppai!”. I think most japanese do not mind Italian way.
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