Tag: asakusa
I went to Asakusa with my friend and we stopped by Funawa for sweets. We had Anmitsu and kusamochi.
Anmitsu is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae or seaweed which served in a bowl with sweet azuki bean paste or anko.
kusamochi is a rice cake mixed with yomogi. If you have a sweet tooth, you will love them!!
They are Ningyo-yaki which are small snack cakes and are made by cooking batter of flour, eggs and sugar in an iron mold from Mihato dou in ASAKUSA. Ningyo-yaki is a standard souvenir from ASAKUSA.
their original shape of pigeons are well-padded. They look cute and yummy!!
Crumbled and seasoned meat/egg are generally called “soboro”（そぼろ） in Japanese. Soboro are often used as toppings on steamed rice.
Different colored soboro are presented on top of the rice in a lunch box. Very tasty.
Yeah, I have been to “TORINOICH” in Asakusa!
“TORINOICH” is a local festival held in many places around Tokyo in Nov. And the most famous is this one at Asakusa’s.
There are many stalls lining up and selling the good-luck charm “kumade“（Japanese pitchfork）and many people buy them.
It is said that “kumade” would “sweep in the good-luck to you” so even famous politicians, artists or big companies get them every year. For example, The Governor of Tokyo and the Sony are among them! （I wonder that it’s hard for the people other than Japanese to get it !? ）
This slidshow is by titanium22 (Hanazono-jinjya at Shinjuku 2006)
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
