Community Party at Japanese garden at Hammersmith Park

Thank you to all those who came to yesterday's event at Hammersmith Park.

I found leftovers of the last batch of Mizu Yokan I made at the last minutes and I was rewarding myself.

It was fun to talk to all kinds of people in a relaxed atmosphere as it was a community festival.

Thank you to all the customers who told me how delicious the food was. Your comments are my driving force 💓.

Last year we sold out in a little over an hour, so this time we tried our best and brought 2.5 times as many wagashi as last year, but they really sold out in 2.5 hours.

The photo above was borrowed from the Embassy of Japan and the Japan Society.

I had asked my husband to take lots of photos, but once we started, I couldn't move for a long time and concentrated on packing the boxes.

I feel really sorry for the customers who had to wait in line and ran out of Japanese sweets. The people from the Japan Society are planning to organise some kind of event in the near future! We hope they will come up with something soon! We'll leave it at that.

I was worried about the rain forecast, which had come out just before the event, but it only sprinkled a little. Finally, I returned home to Brighton with a dazzling sunset.

Now, let's do our best to get the laundry and washing up done.

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Cafe an-an will be taking a week's Summer holiday from tomorrow. The next working day will be Tuesday 14, from 9am. Please note that we will be open from 9.00am on Tuesday 15.

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