Ume harvesting time! In Furouen.

Ume, also known as Plum fruit.

Last week we went to Furouen (We had came here before! Check our latest post!) to harvest ume. The Furouen was very different with the one which we had come to last February. This time wasn't flower, but the fruit anywhere. So, we started our hunting for ume.

Ume hunters.

We had fun when we harvested the ume. Because harvesting ume, skill and knowledge about ume is required. If you pick the wrong ume (unripe), you'll taste the super sour taste. Even you picked unripe ume, you can collect it and make your own Ume juice or if you like alcohol, you can make Umeshuu.

Tutorial how to make Ume juice.

Ocha trying to pinch ume.

After we collected our ume, we got lecture about how to make ume juice. It was so fun. By the way, not just ume, we got udon too! And we got Furouen home-made umeboshi! Very delicious!

The delicious, Umeboshi

Thanks for reading.

Pepi.