What You Can Do with Japanese Tea Leaves in Scotland

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What You Can Do with Japanese Tea Leaves in Scotland

It could easily happen to anyone: You are stuck in lockdown with tea and you are wondering what you can do with Japanese tea leaves in Scotland.

Here are some leafy ideas:

And here are a few ideas of desserts you could cook (mostly based on Japanese recipes, some even with tea).

All of this could be served in your own two-storey Japanese restaurant. It would have a veranda with view onto a lovely garden. It would serve sweets such as the ones shown above during the day and meals in the evening. Can you imagine looking out into a dark night from a comfortably warm room with a romantic fireplace onto a Japanese garden with the light falling onto green ferns and maple trees that change leaf colour into stunning reds in autumn ?

Teas would be served on beautiful red trays, and for those with a more intimate knowledge of Japan, a special kind of Japanese tea ceremony, called Bonryaku Temae, with all the correct utensils including a yamamichibon or a hangatabon, could be arranged.

With time, the restaurant would become famous not only throughout Scotland but also in Japan. Intrigued Japanese tourists would come to the Highlands and ask for the way. Some would find the way to the restaurant while others would find themselves at one of the more than 130 Scottish distilleries.

Surely some of these tourists would also pick up some of Scotlands finest whisky, take it to Japan and soon return with their own whisky. Not only would this impress the Scots because the Japanese have learnt to master the technique of whisky making, but it would equally impress all the language teachers around the world because neither party would use the word ‘whiskey’, and it is rare if not downright impossible to find sentences where two different countries are mentioned and the name of the gold-like liquor is spelt correctly.

Maybe in Scotland one day soon