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kontextmaschine:

plum-soup:

weird how cherry blossoms are such a huge part of japanese culture and yet cherries dont seem to be very important to their culinary culture

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Yeah, the other tree of focus for hanami blossom-viewing, the ume/asian plum has its fruits used in things like pickling in spirits or stuffing onigiri, and it requires some preparation

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Part of it is ume was the traditional tree for hanami (its petals drop in January) and sakura displaced it relatively recently, historically speaking.

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