Hi everybody!
How are you all? I hope you are doing great!
We just got back from a super-fun day of making snak’ems!
Okashi in Japanese! Ya snak’ems!
Today we visited a sweets factory and made yatsuhashi. They
were basically rice flour cookies with cinnamon sugar. They are placed on a
griddle and pressed flat to a nice crisp. There are also variations with red
bean paste, but we made the crunchy ones.
David likes to call them roof tile crackers since according
to him they are shaped like and are as crunchy as roof tiles. But what does he
know about food anyways? I mean, he did burn his hand trying to flip the
cookies.
So while David fails at doing so, there is a proper art to
making perfect yatsuhashi cookies. If you look at the pictures there are 5
blocks, each with dough strips cooking underneath. Each time you move a block,
you are supposed to change the orientation of the dough in a particular way –
place, filp, shuffle, flip, pull off and then press into the round mold to give
it the characteristic curved shape! Simple right?
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| David...before he messes things up. |
But wow watching the ten-in (store staff) work was so fast!
She had it down pat!
Then we each made our own label for our snacks! I wrote my
name in kanji – 済子！It’s a
nice name, I think. Then we ate! MMMM...nice cookies! Pandas like cookies.
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| My box of snak'ems! |
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| Yummy! |
Oh, then David and them went to some museum and a real onsen
(hot springs bath house)…they don’t let pandas in a bath house… :(
Oh well. Pandas are much cleaner than people anyways.
See you later!
-Sumi
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| A cute shop! |
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