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“Hatsuyume”, the first dream in the night at 1st Jan., is considered to be an auspicious sing for the year. Especially appearance of 3 lucky signatures, Mt. Fuji, hawks and eggplant, are believed to provide good lucks. Now in January, … Continue reading
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Happy new year! May Teas and Fortunes Be With You! Speaking fortunes, Japan has a culture of drinking “Fukucha”, which literally means “fortune tea”. Fukucha is a kind of ceremonial teas, drunk at 1st January praying peaceful lives. It is … Continue reading
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Starbucks Japan has launched two new menu of matcha beverage, which has been newly developed using unique ingredients. Before the launching them, the company has performed an unique trial which let us assume the ingredients for the new recipes. In … Continue reading
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According to some web-shops, matcha products are recommended as merry gifts, such as matcha nama chocolate, matcha set etc. Not only commercially available matcha products, homemade matcha sweets are also perfect to merry gifts. Today I’d like to share a … Continue reading
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“Matcha fusion” is the unique trial performed by Starbucks Japan till today. The company pressed its new matcha beverage will be launched from 26th Dec., which is newly developed and further different from the existing matcha recipes. The ingredients using … Continue reading
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The popularity of matcha has been gaining! Starbucks Japan has launched a new menu using matcha “Matcha White Marble Frappuccino” since 6th Dec. Besides, it is announced Starbucks Japan will launch an absolutely new matcha beverages. The ingredients matched to … Continue reading
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Shizuoka local food Marche has been going on at 7th floor of Seibu Ikebukuro. The venue was full of visitors! Most of companies serves their products as tasting. Fantastic products are sold, of course including teas. Sakamoto-en sells medium steamed green … Continue reading
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Speaking of foaming, those who learned chemistry may think some surfactants cause the bubbles. Indeed, tea leaves contains tea saponin, which can cause decrease of interface tension, resulting in foaming. However, Sawamura et al.(2012) clarified that not only water-soluble ingredients … Continue reading
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As posted before, matcha is useful for addition of bright green color and richness to meals. Besides, matcha has been gaining its popularity worldwide due to its health benefits derived from various constituents such as catechins, theanine, vitamins etc. According … Continue reading
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From 12th to 18th Dec., Shizuoka Local Foods Marche is held at 7th floor in Seibu Ikebukuro. In this Marche, we can enjoy various foods brought from sea to mountains in Shizuoka. Sea foods and agricultural products of course specialty … Continue reading