先日、娘が卒業旅行で佐渡島に行きました。家族や親戚に買ったお土産の一部です。
Sado Kaki Chocolate:
佐渡柿チョコレート：
Right: Ichigo Choko (strawberry chocolate) Daifuku
Left: Strawberry Pie
右： いちごチョコ大福
左： いちごパイ
佐渡はまた、朱鷺（トキ）で知られています。
ミルククッキー：
佐渡の金山小判飴：
そして、佐渡は金山でとても有名です。
This particular candy is very popular among elementary school pupils. Many buy several bags so that they can give several candies to each of their friends.
この飴は小学生にとても人気があります。多くの小学生が、友達にそれぞれ飴を幾つかあげられるよう、何袋も買います。
10 comments:
Beautiful candies! (I love the packages, typically Japanese cute animals :-)
It's a wonderful habit of bringing gifts for the family and friends. I do this when I go somewhere, I have a close friend who brings me food whenever she goes to her native country, but I noticed few people do this in Western countries.
Sissi: Gift giving is customary in Japan. It can sometimes be stressful to think about whom to give gifts and what to give them. Luckily, we don't have a custom of tipping.
Yes, I have heard about it! I was very surprised to see the tipping is not a custom. Passing straight from Japan to the US must be a great shock (I have heard if you don't give a tip in a US restaurant, they will run behind you and catch you in the street! Awful!)
Sissi: Some Japanese, especially the middle-aged and the elderly, give some money to the nakai (serving lady) when they stay at a Japanese inn, but that's not at all mandatory.
Hiroyuki, thank you. I will remember that if one day I have the pleasure to stay at a Japanese inn (I hope I will!).
Sissi: Such money is called kokoro zuke 心づけ. It's good to remember the word and the custom, but don't attempt to follow the custom!!
I suppose they might get really angry...
Sissi: Believe me, they won't!
They will understand I am just an ignorant foreigner ;-)
Sissi: (Laugh) Joking aside, service charges are included in accommodation charges, so you don't have to pay any extra money to the nakai (serving lady).
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