Wednesday 11 August 2010

Temple food

Temple sweets and maccha green tea

I used to teach English to a group of retirees. This was taken when we visited a famous temple in Kyoto. One of our group used to work as a guide so she had contacts with the temple staff, and they very kindly served us some green tea and sweets made from azuki beans. The tea was really nice maccha green tea, a bit creamy and slightly bitter, but it went well with the sweets. I took this picture after I accidentally spilled about half of the tea onto the carpet. The staff were really nice about it, saying that it was no problem and everything, but I still felt bad.

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