GG Park Japanese Tea Garden 日本庭園でのお散歩

My family and I took a stroll through the Japanese garden at Golden Gate Park the other day (Here). It's a nice size, although a bit expensive for what's there, I feel (SF residents are $6 and non-residents are $8. They charge $2 for children from age 5 to 11.). I guess, this not being Japan, they are able to charge in accordance with its rarity? For instance, the garden at Meiji Jingu is very big and beautiful and only carries a JPY500 (about $4.15) "contribution" (I always pay, but maybe you don't have to?) for maintenance of the garden, but the garden in Golden Gate Park provides a nice stroll. It's a good size for small children (my 1 y.o. was able to walk the whole thing without problem). Also, there are squirrels, which basically are never in Japanese gardens in Japan, so that was exciting. We took a snack at the tea house there. The matcha and snacks are complete decent. It also serves fortune cookies because fortune cookies are actually a Japanese creation brought to America. It's interesting because here they are almost exclusively found in Chinese restaurants here...^_^;;;

先日、家族とゴールデン・ゲート・パークの日本庭園に行ってみました。割と広いですけれど（それでも1歳児でも歩ききれるぐらいの広さですが）、ちょっと高い気がします。アメリカは、こうゆうガーデンが珍しいからかしら…？園内のティーハウスでおやつをしたが、写真をとる前に子供はもう食べかけてしまいました。お菓子などは、以外と食べられ、普通においしかったです。↓の紅色のお餅は、なぜか強いイチゴの味がして、びっくりしましたが！

園内は、フォーチュン・クッキーが食べられます。フォーチュンクッキーはアメリカですと、よく中華料理のお店で出されますが、本来、日本からアメリカに持ってきたものなんで、ここで食べられるのがとてもいいと思います。

View from the tea house. ティーハウスからの眺め。

Food at the tea house (my kids starting eating before I could take a picture) -- the pink mochi was surprisingly a strawberry flavor (this is not the flavor of pink mochi in Japan)!

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