2020/02/16

Hand-Rolled Wakocha at a Department Store in Osaka

A four-day special "wakocha (Japanese black tea)" event at one of the best department stores in Osaka. Three tea growers from Kumamoto prefecture sell their teas by themselves. 




We can experience hand-rolling tea too. 


Sayamakaori cultivar from Kumamoto prefecture




We brought the leaves back home and dry them.



Chatting with the growers, sampling their teas, feeling and smelling the tea leaves.....which can help people know more about the tea. 
I like it!! I think....I did a good job!
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