Wagashi of seven lucky gods

Tea time - Green tea with wagashi...

Wagashi are traditional Japanese confectioneries which we can enjoy appearance, texture, scent and taste. Also wagashi is healthy sweet because main ingredients are red/white azuki beans, grains, potatoes, Kanten (gelatin made from seaweed) and sugar which are all natural ingredients- rich in vegetable protein, fiber and low in animal fat.

Serve with green tea will be parfect!!

This unique wagashi from Japan, I think the smily man is one of seven lucky god.
Seven Lucky Gods which are commonly know in Japan as Shichi Fukujin.

Shichi means seven, fukujin means god of good fortune and each of the seven gods has own auspiciousness such as Hotei- the fat and happy god of abundance and good health.

Happy healthy tea time!!

Japanese sweet treat : green tea cake

Green tea cake for teatime treat! This is a my favorite cake from Utopia at Myaree.

Utopia has lots of variety of asian style breads and sweets. Australian cake

is too sweet for me but Utopia's cake are just nice and look so yummy:)

Utopia Myaree :near corner of Leach hwy and North Lake rd

　　　Perth : 73 Barrack st

I use a Japanese "Tenugui" for napkin and wooden fork to coordinate. The Japanese book below shows you how to fold and wrap many things using the beautiful Japanese tenugui and furoshiki.

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Green tea Gen Mai Cha

Good reason to have a cup of  "Gen Mai Cha" green tee.

Gen Mai Cha is green tea combined with roasted brown rice so it has a nutty, toasty flavor and less caffein than other green tea and  there is an effect to help health.

Let's boil the kettle and enjoy a wonderful balance of 

aroma Gen Mai Cha.

Hot chocolate and Japanese

I'm having little tea break now*)

Recently I found out Coffee (caffein) makes my skin itch.

So now I'm drinking lots of hot Chocolate, bit worry my teeth:(

I drink my hot choco with my favorite Japanese tea cup and use wooden tray for saucer and "Tenugui" for table cloth.

Well that looks pretty and I having a nice hot chocolate time.