Sunday, June 26, 2011

Summer time

Shosei with his barley tea and fan--getting ready for summer heat.
Shosei had his first taste of barley tea last week.  (Mugi-cha) Too bad he can't drink it iced yet.  That is how one might drink barley tea on a hot summer day in Japan.  At first, he was wondering what this brown liquid was doing in his bottle, but after a while, he got used to the bitter taste and got to drinking down about 20 ml.  Instead of giving him the whole bottle, I thought it was better to have him get used to the taste.


Cherries!
Yamagata cherries
Today, we had a lovely sandwich party with my good friend and her boyfriend.  Her parents gave us a very nice gift of Japanese cherries Yamagata prefecture.  Yamagata prefecture is well known for their cherries this time of the year. 



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