Monther's Day Gift(2)

We had a nice Mother's Day in Japan. A group of people went out to a local confectionary factory (お菓子の香梅西原工場) to learn how to make Japanese style sweets. The sweets were ones that looked like fish, or flowers, or birds. We each were shown how to make two types of flowers, and a bird. It was nice of them to do the instructions on mother's day since it looked like the plant was actually closed for the day, but four of the worker's come in to do a demonstration for us.














陣太鼓(jintaiko) is famous Japanese Okashi maker.














Starts with two different color of sweets doug.














Make it to the fish shape.














Use bamboo to curve it.















寒天（かんてん）is brushed on at the end to made it shinny and firm.














Art fish is made.










We learned how to make Peach flower.
















and botan(牡丹) flower

















and a bird.

























We made all the flowers and birds.