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higashiya

22.06.07

Posted by Jun
[ Food ]

週末の午後に中目黒のHIGASHIYA SABOで相棒と一服。こじんまりと落ち着いた店内には他に誰もいなかったので、かなりノンビリできた。普段は全くお茶に興味がない相棒までもが、目の前で煎れてくれる季節の新茶を堪能。お店の人が10種類程ある季節の和菓子をひとつづつ日本語と英語で説明してくれて、ワタシはその中から黒みたらしをチョイス。相棒の頼んだ抹茶ブラマンジェは、濃茶の抹茶がかなりパンチを効かせていてナカナカ。夜中の2時までやってるので、次回はお酒も飲みに行ってみよう。

One afternoon last weekend, C and I went to a cool, traditional but modern, Japanese sweets cafe called HIGASHIYA SABO (in Japanese) in Nakameguro. It is not a very big space but there were no other customers, so we could relax. Usually C doesn't care about green tea at all, but he seemed very satisfied with his 'shin-cha' new season tea, which was prepared in front of us. I asked the guy working at the cafe about seasonal sweets. He brought about ten differnt kinds of sweets in two layered, thin wooden boxes and explained each one in Japanese and English. I chose 'Kuro-mitarashi' and C chose 'Matcha Blancmange'. They used expensive Koicha mathca for blancmange, it gave a very strong, good green tea flavour. The cafe opens until two in the morning, so I want to try some alcohol next time.

Tamami wrote:

遅れながらもだけど、コメント復活して良かったねー。この前久しぶりにコメントしようかと思ってけっこう長いコメントを書いたんだけどエラーだったので気になってたのよ！せっかく書いたのにコメントがなかったらちょいとsadだもんね？毎回きれいな写真をブログ＋flickrに出しててjunchanさすがだわ。これからもがんばってください。たまぞう。ps: I was clearing up the attic last weekend, and came across many letters from the past - I dunno why but it brought back a memory of when u & C sent me a postcard with 'wipeout' written across the front！You probably won't remember tho, so long ago...

jun wrote:

tamami、久しぶりー！blogを見る限りでは元気そうだね。いつも読んでるヨ。しかし、せっかくコメントしてくれたのにエラーになっちゃって、ホントにごめん。今度からは、そういう時はコメント欄を閉めとくわ。ウィンブルドンをテレビで見たけど、ロンドン寒そ～だね。東京はスチームサウナの様だよ。I can't remember the 'wipeout' card, but obviously very very long time ago. It's so なつかしい, even though I couldn't play the game because that gave me a bad car sick!