Furouen's Ume - Small yet Tasteful

Hello again!

Long time no see - now we're back and we're back at Furouen!!

In the pas post i already explained what is Furouen, so be sure to read that one first!

This time, we look at something different - an ume fruit!

We all know that Furouen produces some of the finest ume flower in Japan, but at here thay can produce ume fruit too!

If you eat it raw, the taste is awful! Trust me, i tried and i regretted it!

But if you make a juice from ume fruit, the taste is awesome!

How you do that?

Easy! You make a fermentation from it!

First, you have to take a seed from the fruit. After that, put the fruit into a jar. Finally, put the fruit with sugar, and close the jar. Viola!

Now you have to wait from 10-14 days, and the juice is ready to be served!

The juice's taste is surprisingly sweet! and it's great with soda!

That it from today, see you again soon!

-Wicak

Kanzo Yashiki - Hinamatsuri's House!

Hello!

We meet again!

For now, we take a look at hinamatsuri, at Kanzo Yashiki! But first, what is hinamatsuri?
Hinamatsuri is a girl's day at Japan, celebrated every 3rd of March in Japan.

For every family with daughters, usually they will show a set of dolls, like in this picture!

There's so many of them, right?
Each dolls has their own meaning and duites!
For example, the two top is king and queen, under them is the "wise" man, and so on!

Now, after we got the basic idea of hinamatsuri, now we take a look at Kanzo Yashiki!
What is Kanzo Yashiki??

Well, Kanzo is a type of leaf that sweeter than a brewed. So the sweet taste from the tea is more natural. This type of tea is existed when back then, sweetener or sugar is expensive to get in Japan. So, they try to find another way to make the tea testes sweet.

They make this kind of tea in this very house!

This house have a advanced tech in this house too (back then), like bronze roofing, for strength.

And also, because of this, the owner of this house is very rich back then!

You can try this tea at outside of the Kanzo Yashiki! Be sure to try it out!

Thats all for this time, see you around next time!
-Irvan

Furouen - Japanese "Ume" Wonderland

Hello!

Long time no see!
Now we're back at some posting - and yes we have found an interesting one!

It's called "Furouen" park, which is famous for its "ume" - a Japanese plum.
"Furoen" literally means park of the eternal life, quite poetic, isn't it?

And this place is not far from Kofu Stations too, its a 10-15 min drive from Kofu Station, and you can get there by train too, about 15-20 min from Kofu Station, by JR Chuo Line.

This park is open from February until March, from 9 AM to 5 PM.

But what makes this park so interesting and special?

Glad you asked! Now we're going to talk about this park's feature!

First of all, this place full of "ume" trees - so many trees, at the full bloom season, which is around 10 March, this park is literally covered in "ume" trees and flowers. It's a breathtaking sight to behold! Be careful though - at the full bloom season, the park is full of people, so adjust your time to come here!

The "ume" in this park have so many species. Even the flower have same colour,
that doesn't mean that they are same species! Now, we don't know the exact number of how many "ume" tree species they have, but we can assure you it's so many that you can lost count.

These "ume" trees have their unique smell, and its quite nice! Be sure to smell it while you're there!

And because this park is located at one of the mountain in kofu, you can see the what we call the "Kofu bonchi", which literally means Kofu valley or basin. This park is one of the few place that we can see "Kofu bonchi" quite clearly, and we can see the mount Fuji from here too!

And that's it for today! See you again!



-Irvan