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We're gonna go have some Japanese tea because she wants to go.

CRYSTAL (in Japanese): You want to drink tea, huh?

CINDY (in Japanese): Girls' outing, girls' outing. Let's go!

CRYSTAL: Girls' outing!

So this tea place... it's a little tea place... it's kind of like hidden.

It's on a street leading to the Narita temple and it's like a little cute tea...

little bit of a garden and then you can have some green tea and Japanese snacks

like traditional snacks that you have... or desserts that you have with Japanese tea.

It's a very Japanese thing to do.

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CINDY: It's all drawn from... it's hand drawn.

CRYSTAL: Aww, that's nice.

CINDY: Warabimochi.

That's what I like.

CINDY (in Japanese): It's light too.

Look at these cute little illustrations.

CRYSTAL: Oh my gosh!

And then they drew everything on their menu. It's so cute.

CRYSTAL: Wow...

CINDY: Looks good...

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CRYSTAL: So what kind of tea is this?

This is hojicha.

CRYSTAL: Hojicha?

They say brown tea is actually the best for you.

When I was pregnant, they told me to drink a lot of brown tea. Because there's less caffeine.

So this is the cutest stick ever, hahaha.

CINDY: Don't they have it at the 100 yen shop?

Do they?

CINDY: They should have it at one of those places because the stores use it.

Yeah, so it's like this little makeshift knife that you cut your dessert with.

I got the grilled mochi set with the traditional green tea

and the grilled mochi... I mean mochi is a rice cake and what they do is...

it's been pounded like a lot so it's it's very chewy and what they do is

they grill this... they put a little bit of soy sauce on it and then they wrap it in seaweed.

This leaf right here... they soak it in salt, so they have a a sweet and salty taste.

CANDY: And that's red bean paste in the middle. And you can eat the leaf.

Yes, I like it. I like the little accent... the salty accent they have with the mochi.

It's kind of hard to cut so I'm going to use my hands

If there was no leaf, it would be easy to cut.

CRYSTAL (in Japanese): Can you do it one more time?

CANDY (in Japanese): Turn it three times.

CRYSTAL: Turn three times and then drink it.

CRYSTAL: And then you wipe it. And that's the correct way to drink green tea. Real green tea.

CANDY: Yay! Thank you for showing us.

Wow, that is really bitter.

CINDY: Yeah and she drank it all!

Dang...

And then you're supposed to wipe it. I don't have my napkin tho. After you drink it, you're supposed to wipe it.

I love that every Japanese restaurant we go to, they give you these little wet naps.

And then you're supposed to wipe it. There we go.

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This is a really nice experience here at the tea shop.

Yeah, if you really want nice, real traditional Japanese tea time desserts and little snacks

this is a great place to come. And if you want real traditional green tea.

Yeah it was very, very bitter. It's not my thing but it's nice to have real green tea.

I mean you don't really find real green tea like this in a lot of places. You have to go to specific places to get it .

And this place in Narita is perfect because not a lot of people come here.

I don't think a lot of people you know about this place unless you're like really local

because it is kind of like hidden and in the alley...

Yeah, I passed by this place millions of times and I never knew about it until my sister told me.

My little sister, our little sister.

Little, little sister hahaha.

And we didn't know how to actually drink traditional Japanese green tea...

I learned it once and I kind of forgot about it, so our niece, she recently learned how to drink tea traditionally

so she taught us again how to drink it.

So that was nice that she taught us how to do that.

And their little Japanese desserts... it's very traditional. It's what they usually have to counterbalance

the bitter green tea and then you have the sweet dessert.

Again, it's not like my thing but...

CANDY: I like it!

Candy likes it. Candy really, really enjoyed it.

It's not it's not like cakes and stuff. It's more of like sweet red bean paste... a lot of rice cake type of dishes

so it is very different when you think about it. Compared to like Western sweets.

It's very different so just know that going into it that it's not your traditional type of Western type of desserts.

Mhmm.

They sell the sticks.

Oh, they do.

Oh, here's their Instagram.

WAITRESS (in Japanese): I received the exact amount, thank you.

WAITRESS (in Japanese): If you like, you can each take one of these.

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