The City That Puts Gold On Ice Cream

This ice cream is real gold. Send this to your friend with a sweet tooth. In Japan there is an old city called Kanazawa. You buy a normal soft ice cream there, and then somebody wraps a whole sheet of gold around it.

Tunay na ginto ang ice cream na ito. Ipadala ito sa kaibigan mong mahilig sa matamis. Sa Japan, may lumang lungsod na tinatawag na Kanazawa. Bibili ka ng normal na soft ice cream doon, at pagkatapos, may magbabalot ng buong sheet ng ginto sa paligid nito.

The gold is beaten until it is very flat. It is thinner than a hair. It moves in the smallest breath of wind, so the workers must be slow and quiet and cannot breathe near it. Almost all of the gold leaf in Japan is made in this one city, and people have made it here for more than four hundred years.

Pinipipi ang ginto hanggang sobrang nipis. Mas manipis pa ito kaysa sa buhok. Gumagalaw ito sa pinakamaliit na hangin, kaya kailangang mabagal at tahimik ang mga manggagawa at hindi maaaring huminga malapit dito. Halos lahat ng gintong dahon sa Japan ay ginagawa sa isang lungsod na ito, at ginagawa na ito rito nang higit sa apat na raang taon.

You can eat it. Gold is safe, and it has almost no taste at all. So the ice cream tastes like ice cream. It only looks like treasure. People hold it up, the light hits it, and the whole street turns to look. Then they eat it too slowly, or the wind finds it, and the gold slides off into the road, and everybody laughs.

Kakainin mo ito. Ligtas ang ginto, at halos walang lasa. Kaya't parang ice cream ang lasa ng ice cream. Mistulang kayamanan lang ito sa itsura. Itataas ito ng mga tao, tatamaan ng liwanag, at titingin ang buong kalye. Pagkatapos, kakainin nila nang mabagal, o mahahanap ito ng hangin, at madudulas ang ginto papunta sa kalsada, at tatawa ang lahat.