Handmade udon

In Takamatsu we made Udon, which is a japanese meal who looks like large pasta.
We mix all the ingredients at first with hands, and then by walking upon with our feet. It was a fun experience.
Then we ate the udon with some other japanese food, like tempuras, shrimps and nimono. It was delicious! The udon are very quick to prepare, just a few minutes and it is fine.
We received some udon and I ate it with my friends when I came back home. Everybody was happy to try handmade udon!

Lunch in Ginza

I tried for the first time the japanese wine, it was very good. But the best part of the meal was the rice. It was absolutely delicious, almost transparent. The sashimi, the tempura and the different okazu were perfect too.

Shrine Fukutoku

In Tokyo we visited a small shrine (jinja) in Ginza, at about 10minutes from the Nihonbashi bridge I was mentioning in the previous article. We learn about the way to make a prayer in a japanese shrine and about this shrine history. The guide explained us that a long time ago, during the Edo period, the shogun Tokugawa spotted a new sprout, on the bark of the sawtooth oak gate, and the shrine became also called the "Mebuki Inari" (sprouting shrine). It is a very beautiful place in the middle of Tokyo, and I like the contrast with the buildings around.