Japanese strawberries are the best. They are at least three times as sweet as the average strawberries you can eat in America. Seriously, the first time I ate a freshly picked one last year, I felt like I was eating candy!
This year, a friend invited me to go strawberry picking at the local strawberry park in our town. Matsunami, one of the villages in Noto cho, has a "strawberry park," which consists of several strawberry gardens, each farmed by different people, located along one road. Every year in May and June the strawberry fields are open for "all you can eat strawberry" trips. You pay the fee, receive a small plastic cup to put your stems in, then walk into the net covered strawberry field to pick and eat strawberries for as long as you want!
So we went one Saturday morning and feasted on the tasty, ripe strawberries, freshly picked off the plants. In the span of about an hour I probably ate at least 50 strawberries! Which seems like a crazy number now....
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