White Day and lots of sympathy
- owwwla
- Mar 14
- 2 min read
We've gotten used to Valentine's Day. Another holiday in the category of showing affection is White Day. It's an opportunity to repay the person who gave us a Valentine with something equally nice. While it's not yet so widely known in Poland, in Japan products for this day have been promoted in sales for at least a week. (Although, really, what isn't an opportunity to sell here...? Shoppingin Japan awaits its own post 😉) Among these ubiquitous goods, cookies resembling white pieces of cake and rice dough balls, or mochi, reigned supreme, but the most important thing was to decorate them with... strawberries. I regret not taking a picture at one of the first stands with these fruits, but I didn't know back then that it was such a significant phenomenon. Well, there were strawberries in a dozen or so varieties on display, each of them with a description of its properties: sweetness, full flavor, sourness, crunchiness and hardness. And indeed, if you choose those that have a high level of sweetness, they are insanely sweet, and at the same time do not give the impression of a chemically created taste. I know that there are several varieties of strawberries, because Poland is full of strawberries, yet this surprised me.
From time to time I allow myself a treat, which is a mochi ball with a strawberry. Today I gave myself this pleasure, because probably from tomorrow all the goods from White Day will disappear. It does not look fancy, but it is delicious :)
The second sweet is of course the "deer", which live not only in Miyajima, but also in Nara, the former capital, which I visited today. You can buy special crackers prepared for them and feed them. They are also "well-mannered". When they ask people for crackers, they make a gesture with their head that can be taken as a bow, or at least that is what the information for tourists suggests. Below I am posting a few photos, but I also recorded a short film of a deer calling without opening its mouth at all. You can find it by clicking on this link: https://youtube.com/shorts/qBB7sTUWoBI?si=kw4w7wEi1CrR8riR
And what sweet thing happened to you today?
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