Season for the strawberries

You know, spring is the season for the strawberries.
The doughnut is a strawberry color.

There is also a thin shade of strawberry pink.

Various.

Actually, we have many strawberry sweets in this season.
This is Kinokonoyama from meiji.

It says "If you find a flower on the package, you are lucky".

I got it!

Another one.
Maybe, am I a super lucky girl!?

This is a normal version without a flower.
However, there is a little petal.

Compare!

Strawberry milk collon from glico.

The strawberry milk cream are wrapped with the crisp waffle.

Strawberry milk of Countrymaam from FUJIYA.

A kind of the soft cookie of an American type.

Super strawberry chocolate from MORINAGA.

It is packed neatly.

Thick strawberry taste.

Cream puff of a fresh strawberry from MONTEUR.

We also enjoy Sakura(= Cherry blossoms) sweets in this season.
This is Sakura Dorayaki.

Mini Sakura taste buns with red beans from YAMAZAKI.

Cute pink and soft bite feeling.

Sakura paste Daifuku of Sakura panda series.

Seasonal alcohols

We also have some seasonal stuff about alcohols.
This is Chūhai "果実の瞬間(= The moment of fruits)" from Asahi.

Tankan, a kind of orange.

Sweet peach taste and a cherry blossoms flavor.

This is the standard Chūhai of Plum taste.

Beautiful season

You know, we Japanese are the cherry blossoms lovers.
We really love the pretty cherry blossoms.

The cherry trees are widely seen in all parts of Japan, the cherry blossoms bloom all at once in the area in spring one time.
The cherry blossoms drop down in the short period of only a little less than two weeks.
Therefore, the cherry blossoms leave us a strong impression every year.
The cherry blossoms are the important natural things which form a sense of the spring season for Japanese.

The shortness of the blooming period and the beauty of the blossoms are often compared to the transiency of people's life.

We also have beautiful recollections about the cherry blossoms.
It is the precious memory that we went to the entrance ceremony of the elementary school with our mom under the beautiful cherry blossoms.

In spring, I always remember my mom's warm hand.

Japanese traditional confectionery for spring

Sakuramochi is Japanese traditional confectionery for the cherry blossoms.
A sweet pink mochi(= rice cake) and red bean paste are covered with a leaf of sakura(=cherry blossom).
The sweet taste and the scent of a cherry tree reminds us of the lovely season.

Sakura mochi has some variations.
This is the Kansai-style sakura mochi.
The first one is Tokyo-style sakura mochi.

This is Kusa mochi.
It's also a seasonal dish for spring.

Finally, this is the last one

Thank you so much for reading too long long Singapore and Malaysia travel sketches.
Travel to Malaysia is the first time for me.
Then, I had a lot of things which I'd like to write.
However, this is the last one.
I'll write something about my daily life from tomorrow.
Thank you so much again!

Souvenirs from lovely friends

A lovely can of a orchid.
It's a present from my lovely friends.

A beautiful watch of a orchid is inside the can.
Thank you so much!
I really appreciate it.
I'd like to go to the National Orchid Garden next time.

利是封 @ Hong Kong

Do you know this?
This is 利是封.
"利是" is one of the customs of Chinese New Year in Hong Kong.
Unlike a Japanese New Year's present "お年玉", "利是" of Hong Kong is given to not only a child but also an adult if he or she is single's person.
I bought it in Hong Kong.