Today was mochi 🍡 pounding for the New Year 🎍at Nikkei Center, then popped over to Aberdeen Centre for a shop and a snack🧋 and then to Tsujiri for a matcha parfait 🍵 Pretty full day! 😋

People with large wooden mallets taking turns hammering mocha in large stone bowl. The floor is covered in blue tarp, and people sit around the edges watching and waiting their turnFrom the top floor of a shopping mall looking into a plaza where a fountain show is happening. There is a giant Xmas tree and a huge plush reindeer and Santa displayA matcha parfait with chestnut, Shiratama, and monaka on top