Japanese apricot

Hi everyone!!
Today I'm going to talk about "Japanese apricot"(ume!!).

Do you like it??I love it:)
However, the taste is very very sour, so foreigners tend to hate it.

2 years ago, I had an American friend who was a student at KUIS.
One day, he asked me to teach him how to cook rice balls. (It is pretty easy tho:Dhaha)
Then we went to a grocery store to get some ingredients for the rice balls.

Ususally, salmon, okaka, kombu, or of cource Japanese apricot are standard ingredients for
rice balls.

We got them, and started to make rice balls at home.
It was first time to eat Japanese apricot for him, and it killed him!!

It surprised him and he spit it...
I was pretty shocked because I love Japanese apricot and I was proud of it as a Japanese. lol
But he SPIT it... I felt kind of culture shock, but it was interesting.

Anyway, I love Japanese apricot.
We can eat as picled ume, jam and there are a lot of ways to eat it.

It includes much citric acid, and it maked our body fine!!
We should eat it in summer!!

Thank you for reading my blog!!