Thursday, August 25, 2011

Food culture 301: Kanazawa Special: All that glitters

One more thing that Kanazawa is famous for is gold leaf.
Incidentally, approximately 99% of Japan's golf leaf is produced in Kanazawa.

It is no surprise that gold leaf is widely used here.
For instance, you might have noticed that the crab I had was littered with gold leaf:





Furthermore, the plastic food models are also laced with gold leaf:


And when you have the traditional arts of gold leaf production and traditional Japanese tea ceremony in a single place, you are bound to get some extravagance.

And this is one of them. Gold sweets for the Japanese tea ceremony.
Yes, that is a sweet with pure gold in it.



How did it taste?
Like a big mouthful of luxury.

A special thanks to the lovely people who bought this for me.

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