Pancakes with Bean Paste – March 18, 2019

  • Monday, March 18, 2019/Brother’s Birthday, Day 5
  • Temples #14, #15, ,#16, #17, #18
  • Tokushima City, Japan
  • Weather: 32-45 degrees
  • 16.7 Miles / 61.7 Miles

How would you make a better Hostess Twinkie in Japan? A simple conveyor machine containing individual mini-cake pans is filled with pancakes batter, topped with a drop of sweetened bean paste, and finished with a final layer of batter.

The shop had a line of people out the door picking up boxes of treats. We waited 45-minutes and it was worth the wait.

How’s it taste? It tastes like the lightest, fluffiest American pancake crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. The filling is tasty with a hint of sweetness and the texture is creamy.

  1. Pans being cleaned and filled
  2. Flipped pancakes are cooking on the bottom
  3. Danes Anna and Sif enjoying pancakes.

Temple Patterns – March 18, 2019

  • Monday, March 18, 2019 / Brother’s Birthday, Day 5
  • Temples #14, #15, ,#16, #17, #18
  • Komatsushima City, Japan
  • Weather: 32-45 degrees,
  • 16.7 Miles / 61.7 Miles

Patterns are quickly determined at each Buddhist Temple as they are uniformly composed of the same six elements. Temple Gate, Water Bath, Temple Bell, Main Temple, Kobo Daishi’s Temple and Office for marking stamp books. It is with purpose I move between each Temple lighting incense sticks, candles, offering prayer slips and donations. The I sit taking in the beauty and being at peace.

  1. Temple #15 Temple Gate with Sif from Denmark
  2. Temple #15 Kobo Daishi
  3. Temple #14 Water Bath Guarded by Dragons