Mochi pounding for New Year

Mochi pounding , one of the ready for New Year

Mochi pounding by grandma and her sun

and cutting is the work of grandpa

Around the stove, the family get together

the other family pounded mochi, too

The yong brothers were working !!

 

Using stove, glutinous rice was steamed

Thsnk you for all ♥

  

 

Hoji cha ; roasted green tea

Last night, I had quiet and vivid raw puer tea
  then, quiet and spectacular puer black tea

Now,  I had hoji cha

The tea straight into my body ^^

The Christmas party

The third times, Christmas party

from 3.11,Great East Japan Earthquake

I joined Ochakko meeting, the victims of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident

I made the Christmas tree together, heard to the recent,

and brewed apple tea

Tea leaves made by Mr.Masui, Kawane, Shizuoka

Thank you for all ♥

Yabukita Oolong

Yabukita Oolong tea
made by Mr.Watanabe

roasting by Mr.Matsuoka

Tea leaves made from Ginpei in Utsunoya, Shizuoka

I felt deep dan cong oolong

The day was rain

So, we were hard for wilting
we used a heater and a electric fan

I have best friends ♥

Umegashima

 

 It was getting cold in Umegashima, Shizuoka

Fire has been put into the wood stove

It was very hot !!

Potatos were baked on the stove

Using heat of the stove, persimmons dried

It became more sweet

The another home

Persimmons were also dried on the stove

Thanks for all ♥

Nishimata white tea

by Mr.Watanabe and Mr.Matsuoka

June, 2015

Nishimata, Saemidori

Nishimata Autumn

 

 Yabukita sencha

by Mr.Saito, Nishimata, Shizuoka

 

 His sencha was so soft

I went to Nishimata

to take Autumn

 

 

 Mr.Saito prepared all tea estates for next year

I felt his professional work

 

 

I love Nishimata ♥

Smoked tea

Smoked tea made by Matsumoto tea estate, Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan

This tea was smoked with whisky barrel tips

I felt strong smoke

I had a cup of tea with chocolate

Thank you ♥

Ochazuke

I had rice with Umeboshi and sencha tea leaves

Umeboshi is dried plum

I poured sencha

This plum and sencha made from Umegashima

Thank you for my friends ♥

Wakocha, Japanese black tea

a cup of black tea

with a flower of cha

from my friend

thank you ♥

by Fujibien

at Murakami, Niigata, Japan

which is cold region for cha tree

Makinohara tea trip

I went to make green tea with my friend

We picked up tea leaves

Tea leaves were 静7132, Shizu 7132 which was used for sencha tea

and had scent of sakura leaves

 

There was the big tea factory near the tea plantation

We dropped in

Tea master of Fukamushi sencha, deep steamed sencha, 

brewed sencha for us !!

It was Haiken, 拝見 that mean tea tasting

 

In new year tea season, this factory get a lot of raw tea leaves

from many tea plantations

 

The tea plantation of Mr.Shibamoto was near the sea

 

 

we made pan fried tea

Dinner time !!

 

 Left; 10/29 last week

made by Mr.Shibamoto and I
I feel green, but I like this tea
Tea leaves size are same

 
Right; 11/3 this time

I feel fire and bodied Tea leaves are big or small
 

I like both green teas

Thank you for my friends ♥

green tea, Mr.Shibamoto

 I joined to make green tea of Mr.Shibamoto

at Makinohara, Shizuoka

Tea leaves were Shizu7132, 静7132

as sencha, it have the scent like sakura tree leaves

before fried tea leaves

He made pan fried tea

White steam and scent rised up, after tea leaves put the fire

and rolling

He was careful for water of stems

tea leaves fried and rolled four times

Thanks Mr.Shibamoto ♥