05/07/2026
Today, I made Yuya an iced matcha latte 🍵✨
This is “Senun-no-Shiro,” a premium matcha from Uji, Kyoto.
It’s an usucha-style matcha, perfect for everyday matcha moments.
Yuya spent 4.5 years living in Kyoto, which honestly feels so special even to us as Japanese people ⚽️
We usually drink our matcha with no sweetener at all — just pure matcha 🤍
But we’ve also been having fun trying different flavors here in America. Strawberry and matcha together was honestly shocking… but so good 🍓🍵
My grandmother used to prepare traditional bitter matcha at home and taught me many tea ceremony manners, like turning the bowl three times before drinking.
I probably should have taken it more seriously back then. She would never have made a latte like this 😂
She was also a haiku teacher — truly the definition of old Japanese culture to me.
