Japanese Tea Garden
Thursday, August 09, 2007
The tea garden is so many things in one. For a good part of the year, it can be a serene haven, a place to wander among bonsai, waterfalls, and pagodas, hunker down on a cement bench, and read. In the summer, it is an ideal place to watch the tourists float in and soak up the excitement of people who are experiencing one of SF’s best spots for the first time. Various teas, crackers, and cookies await in the tea house. But wait—how did those fortune cookies sneak into the bowl? Aren’t those Chinese? And here is where the tea house provides a little history lesson and shatters commonly held assumptions. For it was Makota Hagiwara, creator of the tea garden, who is said to have invented the cookie in 1909. Your fortune: Ignorance is a thing of the past.
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Jennifer Anthony
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