tuftears | A Day in San Francisco: Japanese Tea Garden

Following the chocolate walking tour, we headed over to Golden Gate Park and into the Japanese tea garden! This one is going to be mostly pictures. It's really a small area but very pretty.

Here's me:

Here's

kagetsume:

A very pretty 5-tier pagoda:

Despite how it looks, this is a crane statue, not a live crane:

A waterfall feeding into the lake. This really captures the feel of the whole garden, I think, a miniature version of an exotic and beautiful landscape.

We had a cup of tea and some tea cookies in the tea garden's cafe. They have tea ceremonies during the week, which you need to reserve, but none during the weekend. I tried the genmaicha tea, but sadly, despite its claim to be "rice tea", there weren't any toasted brown rice kernels, though I could taste that it had been made with 'rice water'. I will have to try making it myself sometimes to get the real experience.

After that, we were pretty tired out, or at least I was, but we headed down to Potsticker King to get dinner before retiring for the night!