Beer adventure today. Have to visit the Sapporo Beer Museum of course, the first beer company in Japan and hailing back to the 1870s. Had a beer ice cream, and a flight of 3 beers. The water here is very crisp and cold, and the hops have the intense bitter aroma. Love those old bottles and graphics.
There’s no good tea in this town- just some bottled tea in ubiquitous vending machines, or hot Sencha with powdered matcha to give it the green powdery color, but in reality, Sencha is yellowish. Or that it’s neither Sencha nor Matcha but cheapest hojicha. The problem with Asia is that free tea is everywhere so people think Sencha should be served boiling hot like these restaurants do. In Uji, one should be hitting Sencha at 50-60 C or the tea police will ambush.
Sapporo Beer is an everyday beer that hits the spot after a long day of walking. And matcha/Sencha free tea goes down well if it’s free, but any China beer other than Tsingtao is undrinkable, and any perfumed scented tea is also undrinkable…..says my palate. Perhaps other professionals might agree.
