alright hello wat today we are in
in
in Kobe
Kobe Japan I am drew badger the cofounder
cofounder a English anyone
anyone dot com and I'm excited to
to show you a
a nice calming relaxing TV we
we maybe it will be a tea ceremony
ceremony but we'll have a little bit
bit of Japanese tea here in Fukuoka
Fukuoka Japan so
so we have a lovely setting here a
a traditional Tea
Tea Room and we've also got a lovely
lovely Japanese garden
garden some going to take off my shoes
shoes over here you
you don't want to bring your shoes
shoes up into the nice flooring
flooring here so this is the two Tommy
Tommy Greene map and
and will come on in and we'll have
have some tea I though
though sexyy corp.'s you I them today
today the last so
so this is the I ok Ashley this is
is the traditional Japanese sweets
sweets and usually when you have Japanese
Japanese sweets you'll try this first
first and then you will try the tea
tea after that and your kinda
kinda specific places actually study
study t4 about a year but
but is really bad on my knees so I
I had to stop idea last time and
and and we had do you know figure
figure out exactly and I mean
like
like really
really really like almost microscopic
microscopic differences in this space
space is on a tatami mat so this is
is a tatami mat a
a standard to Tammy size they were
were actually different sizes up to
to Tommy for different areas have
have Japan which I learned recently
recently which is really interesting
interesting so
so some people if they would be moving
moving from one part of Japan to
to another the actual sizes Ave quote-unquote
quote-unquote standard
standard to timely manner different
different depending on the area but
but we will try some of this: that
that so we can do this is not a traditional
traditional tea ceremony where we
we would have somebody actually making
making tea and
and in that situation you've got someone
someone that actually making the hot
hot water inside the room actually
actually we can stand up and we can
can walk over here I'll
I'll show you this little area over
over here which is a little bit different
different
different hopefully
hopefully we can sneak in here and
and take a look so usually a tea
tea ceremony you would have the person
person it's serving that he would
would come in from a room like this
this
this and
and again it doesn't have to be that
that way but usually like the way
way I studied it was kind of like
like this
like this so
so the actually if you come take a
a look over here you can see a little
little bit of the prep area where
where the key is back
back here see you know maybe you can
can kind of store things over here
here in probably at one open as I
I don't want anybody to jump out at
at like a ninja jump out at me or
or something but usually
usually the tea utensils all the things
things like that are stored back here
here
here and
and then he would come to the door
door and you open it up again
again I can't do it perfectly but
but basically that's how it is and
and you would have a few people waiting
waiting here or maybe sitting on that
that side and then the person is preparing
preparing that he would bring all
all the utensils in
in and they would sit down here and
and again it depends on exactly how
how they're sitting in where they
they are
they are because
because they're kind of some different
different tea ceremony things depending
depending on the season or the school
school if T that you have but
but usually there would be a pot of
of water here or this part right here
here this little piece at a time he
he would be removed and you actually
actually have a
a kinda fire pit right here where
where you can boil the water in actually
actually have a long ladle really
really individually make all the T
T and then you would whisk tea
tea powder into that water and then
then you would serve at to each of
of the guests that at the tea ceremony
ceremony
ceremony so
so it can be a nice simple thing like
like today we're just getting it's
it's more about tasting the T&T sting
sting be ok ashey so
so that's the traditional Japanese
Japanese sweets were giving that a
a try
a try and
and so will walk over there and we'll
we'll give that a try right now okay
okay so now we're ready to give RT
RT attract now I'm gonna try this
this first sometimes you know again
again this is the 40 ceremony some
some just going to try a few things
things
things so
so this is one of the ok I she right
right here wanna be traditional Japanese
Japanese sweets and
and if you take a look at that they're
they're basically made from sugar
sugar
sugar so
so it's basically all sugar we've
we've got lots of different know kinda
kinda slightly different flavors and
and colors that you can use and
and what you'll see it like especially
especially this you
you know this is a again it's the
the same kind of soft sugar but
but you've got lots of different designs
designs in one of the things that's
that's really popular for Japanese
Japanese sweets is
is floral designs so you will have
have you know some kind of flower
flower
flower this
this thing here its regular just the
the same kind of sugar thing and it's
it's just got you know a little bit
bit a green and pink and brown on
on the way here just
just as a little bit have an accent
accent so this one doesn't look like
like a flower but again it's kind
kind of a nice colorful thing that
that you can have that's
that's a contrast to the T so the
the TV itself is actually quite bitter
bitter
bitter and
and this is the regular mucho or green
green tea and then you have something
something sweet to go along with it
it
it so
so again when she served as she put
put it right here for me and not here
here
here and
and not over here and not here in
in their specific places that you
you put that in really when
when I was studying T I remember my
my teacher was sitting over here and
and she would tell me okay like bring
bring the
bring the bring
bring the tea bowl and put it right
right here and I am you know if you've
you've ever seen me in person I much
much bigger than typical
typical Japanese woman is teaching
teaching teen so
so maybe like her knees would come
come up to Lake here but my knees
knees are coming up to hear some much
much bigger than her thing
thing I'm taking the teen it's really
really difficult for me to try to
to like actually make it in like a
a particular spot like this and she
she would say no plea closer and I'm
I'm
I'm kinda
kinda doin' like this is making the
the tea but I you know it ended up
up working out our rape so
so I would take the T and I would
would put the actual tea in there
there I would take a at kind
kind of a little scoop and dump the
the T in their install again it's
it's a very precise about what you
you doing exactly how you do it in
in the order you do things even
even tapping the spoon one or two
two times
two times the
the way you whisk it all it is very
very very precise but
but likely for today we're just here
here to drink the tea sir going to
to enjoy it so I'm going to pick it
it up with my right hand like this
this
this but
but might left hand under here just
just hold the ball up and see we've
we've got
we've got very
very delicious I wish I could put
put that through to the camera but
but it's very delicious sometimes
sometimes you get a little T mustache
mustache if you really start drinking
drinking a lot a venti gotta be careful
careful about that but
but you want to drink the whole thing
thing and then after you're done so
so I'm gonna drink some of this now
now
now but
but really it's kind of like sampling
sampling wine are trying a different
different beer something like that
that
that where
where you really want to enjoy the
the aroma and really relax and take
take your time with this isn't something
something you drink after you pay
pay now playing sporty like I
I really need twenty so just enjoy
enjoy this I
I very delicious and usually you would
would wipe the
the edge of the bowl with your hands
hands and you would wash those offer
offer wipe them off with
with the paper that you have with
with your tea set now I can put this
this back down and
and this isn't a particularly beautiful
beautiful bowl it's a very nice tee
tee ball but there's certainly you
you know hundreds and thousands a
a different kind of tea bowl that
that you can get and
and you would usually put this down
down in each person it's coming for
for the tea ceremony there
there will usually be a different
different bowl for each person so
so you would take one you can kinda
kinda look at it a little bit and
and see what it's like and
and you can put it down and have the
the other person you can pass it to
to the next person for
for them to take a look at your ball
ball and see what that's like as well
well
well but
but as you can see it was very delicious
delicious and I drank the whole thing
thing
thing now
now we're gonna give these treats
treats a try all
all right now I wonder what kind of
of flavor this is let's see we've
we've got here definitely
definitely sugary very sweet again
again this is a typical kinda
kinda flavor that you get where you
you have maybe a little bit of you
you know and like
like it kinda depends on the flavor
flavor of it but usually just that
that kinda it's
it's a mild but sweet sugary thing
thing
thing sugar
sugar flavor and it's a really soft
soft
soft a
a soft texture when you bite into
now will try this one as well up I can't
I can't place the flavor this is a
a great English expression where you
you don't
you don't you
you can quite placed something you
you can't say exactly what it is I
I can't place the
the flavor this one definitely has
has a little bit of some
some strawberry and some cinnamon
cinnamon in it which is really nice
nice but this one's got all some cinnamon
cinnamon to it's a really interesting
interesting flavors up but
but anyway without worrying about
about the flavors so much the
the whole point of tears just to sit
sit down and relax and really just
just to
just to forget
forget about the things that are on
on the outside in the garden walls
walls here along
along the outside of the Tea Room
Room see can kinda focus here and
and that's you know part of the the
the whole philosophy about focusing
focusing on the thing that you're
you're doing so
so even though it seems like a lot
lot of work where why don't you just
just put the tea in there and mix
mix it up and drink it the whole point
point
point is
is really to sit down and relax and
and then you can forget about the
the other things that are on the outside
outside to the Tea Room so
so you can enjoy here and we'll take
take a walk outside and I'll talk
talk more about Japanese gardens in
in a minute because that actually
actually
actually the
the main reason I came to Japan in
in the first place and in all the
the years I've been making videos
videos for YouTube I haven't yet really
really gone out and shown a video
video of a Japanese car so we're
we're going to enjoy our t have a
a look around and we will come back
back in just a moment and