Wandering Fel

Okay, if you ever see this store. You MUST ENTER AT ALL COST. Why is that so? Well, it's because this is one of the rare store which provide testers for visitors to try for nearly all of its food products. Of course it will be good if you can buy something, but they will not force you to buy anything if they are not to your liking. To be honest, it will be very difficult for you not to buy anything from this store because their mochi is yummy!

First, there are matcha chocolate. This taste a bit like Royce's chocolate. 

Second, there is this green tea candy snacks which is mixed with nuts. It can be too tough for the teeth so eat with care, ok?

The store has various taste of mochi. The green one is green tea mochi while the pink one is strawberry mochi. The filling for both mochi is the same, red bean. I like the green tea and ended up buying one box at 540 Japanese Yen.

This snack looks like an egg roll with green tea cream filling. Taste not bad but I prefer the mochi. 

Banana mochi, anyone? If I was not wrong, my travelling buddy bought this mochi as she said she seldom find banana mochi anywhere else. Hmm, that may be true as I did not see banana mochi anywhere so far. 

There is a bun stall right opposite the mochi store. The bun is pretty popular and we were pretty lucky snatch some before they close. It has meat fillings and taste so yummy under the cool breeze of spring.

If you want to visit Ginkaku-ji Temple in the afternoon, it is better to visit it first before tasting all the good food at the temple street. This is because Ginkaku-ji Temple closes at 5PM and you don't want to miss it even though the food is very very tempting. XD

If you are a curious traveller and like to make a stop here and there in order to see interesting stuff, you will probably need to allocate more time whenever you are visiting a temple in Japan. Most of the famous temples in Japan (e.g. Fushimi Inari in Kyoto and Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo) have temple street which is filled with food and souvenir shops. The food and the souvenirs that these shops sell are usually so tempting. For instance, how about some oden stuff on a stick, anyone?

A shop with a cute bunny on its signpost must be visited for sure. #weaktocutethings

A lot of bunnies are sighted in the shop. One cute bunny costs at least 540 JPY though. If you decided to adopt all of them, you will go homeless I think. Hahaha. Okay, I guess that's an overstatement but you got the point.

The shop sells other interesting stuff too like Furoshiki which is actually a mere wrapping cloth. However, the Japanese has a God-given talent in wrapping stuff and hence, probably a lot of tourists were cheated buying this because they thought it is a kimono. Okay, the notice is definitely necessary. 

If you want to see how lucky you are in finding love, you can take one of the reading. Getting a bad luck? No worry, you can tie your bad reading under the red box. Looking at the count of paper tied below there, one can't help but wonder if there are more bad luck than good luck inside this glass box. 

Not interested in food, souvenirs and love reading? It's okay you will enjoy the spring walk anyway because there are so many pretty flowers to see along the road. 

We needed to rush a bit toward the end of the road in order to reach Ginkaku-ji Temple on time because we totally spent so much time adoring all these stuffs. You have been warned!