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| Sazare |
Hiro's birthday and a regrettable lack of imagination gave a perfect excuse to venture yet again to the back strees of Ueno-Hirokoji to
Kagetsu, one of my two favourite (to date)
karintou shops in Tokyo. Karinto is like a kind of rice cracker I guess, usually sweet. It's a fail proof gift for Hiro - his favourite,
sazare - a word which always reminds me of
arare (dry sleet) and mizore (dry sleet) .(Before coming to Japan it had never occured to me that there would be a need to distinguish between the two.)
I am not actually sure what sazare means though. The sazare (picture from their home page) is wrapped in yellow
washi. The packaging alone makes me want to buy it.
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| Kagetsu shopfront |
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| Sazare |
4 comments:
Hiro's birthday? He's Aquarius? Really? So am I! You're surrounded, Cecilia, you might as well surrender. :D
I'm glad I haven't done that Book Off walk yet, because I definitely want to pop into this store on my way to Akihabara. Thanks for this suggestion!
Happy Birthday!
It's shut on a Sun. & public hols so make it a Sat walk (but not next Sat) - they have a calendar on their website.
There's a yakikarintou shop in Yanaka shotengai that's also very good. :)
http://www.yakikarinto.jp/
OK, so now I have to walk from Asakusa via Yanaka to Ueno-Hirokoji and then to Akihabara, and then I might as well continue to Jinbocho, and then Maruzen in Marunouchi isn't too far, hmmm ... :D
Sounds like a great day!
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