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Production area: Okinawa
Bukubukucha has been drunk traditionally in Okinawa Prefecture. There are various theories about the origin of bukubukucha and one of them says that it began to be drunk during the Ryukyu Kingdom Period (1429-1879). The tea was called fukufukucha and fuku means luck and happiness. The tea was drunk at celebrations.
After World War II, the custom of drinking bukubukucha went out of vogue, but the members of the Bukubukucha Preservation Society began to conduct activities to revive bukubukucha.

Now there are some cafés and restaurants where bukubukucha is served in Naha City. Some couples feed bukubukucha to each other at their wedding party.

Bukubukucha at Uchinaa chaya Bukubuku (July 2019)

How to make bukubukucha
1. Put hot water brewed with roasted rice and sanpincha (sanpin tea) in a large wooden bowl. Whisk it with a large bamboo whisk in order to make it frothy.
Bancha or genmaicha is often used instead of sanpincha.
2. Put some sekihan (steamed rice with red beans) into a tea bowl and pour the hot tea over the sekihan and add some of the froth. Sometimes, sekihan is not used in bukubukucha.
Add some crushed peanuts into the tea to taste.
When whisking bukubukucha using hard water, it froths well, but if using soft water, it does not become frothy easily. Tap water in Okinawa Prefecture is hard water or soft water depending on the region.

Bukubukucha at Uchinaa chaya Bukubuku (July 2019)

Related article on the site: “Tea of Okinawa“

Reference: 
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高野實、谷本陽蔵、富田勲、中川致之、岩浅潔、寺本益英、山田新市 (2005) 緑茶の事典 (改訂3版) 柴田書店
松下智 (平成3年) 日本名茶紀行 (初版) 雄山閣出版

うちなー茶屋＆ギャラリーぶくぶくhttps://bukubuku.jp/

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