Take bites of the Milky Way and summer with traditional, Tanabata-inspired Japanese sweets【Pics】

We don’t wish upon a star in this house — we eat them instead. Every year July 7 marks the start of Tanabata: a festival celebrating the reunion of Japanese celestial deities Orihime and and Hikoboshi, respectively represented by the stars Vega and Altair. The festival originates from the Chinese folk tale “The Silk Weaver […]