Celebrate Recovery ― 2024/12/05
To celebrate my recovery from last week's bruise, I decided to treat myself with pancakes at Rokkatei Cafe.
Ta-da!
The most delicious and most expensive (800 yen, I think it was 700 yen until very recently...) pancakes I have ever had. With my weakened digestive system, I tend to only eat half of everything when I snack out. But these pancakes were so light and fluffy and tasted so wonderful that I found myself wolfing them all down almost at once. No regret to get fatter.
The coffee was covered by the store loyalty points I had accumulated (which are relatively easy to save), but splashing out 800 yen for a snack at a neighborhood cafe feels very guilty (if this cafe was in the city center or at an airport, it wouldn't be the case) .
Meanwhile this very shop offers four different sweets for the same 800 yen. As an everyday treat, I would go for it.
But the problem is that this offer is only available one day a month and only by reservation. You also have to place your order within a certain week of the previous month and physically pick it up at the store. What a seller-centered and complicated system! But still attractive, I have to admit. The girls who served me told me that the February version featuring chocolate was her favorite.
WInter Protection ― 2024/12/05
From November, shrubs were covered against snow. The locals call this work is called ”冬囲い(winter cover)”.
Most of the shorter trees planted in front of buildings are covered with blue netting and other materials or have their branches tied tightly.
Or they are supported so that the snow doesn't come into direct contact with them.
Sometimes they look like bags of rubbish. I'm sorry to say...
Fully covered version. This view reminded me of the film The Elephant Man.
I wonder why they planted trees in the first place if the plants need to be covered for a quite a long period of time, probably until April when the snow completely disappears. I don't think this tradition is good for either the plants to be covered or for the owners of the plants who have to bear a certain financial burden every single winter to cover their trees.
However, covering water taps in parks makes perfect sense to me.
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