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.

Aiskrimu hii ni dhahabu halisi. Tuma hii kwa rafiki yako mpenzi wa vitamu. Nchini Japani kuna mji wa zamani uitwao Kanazawa. Unanunua aiskrimu ya kawaida hapo, kisha mtu hukuzungushia karatasi nzima ya dhahabu.

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.

Dhahabu hiyo hupigwa mpaka iwe bapa sana. Ni nyembamba kuliko unywele. Husogea kwa upepo mdogo kabisa, hivyo wafanyakazi lazima wafanye kazi polepole na kimya na wasipumue karibu nayo. Karibu dhahabu yote nyembamba nchini Japani hutengenezwa katika mji huu mmoja, na watu wamekuwa wakiitengeneza hapa kwa zaidi ya miaka mia nne.

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.

Unaweza kuila. Dhahabu ni salama, na haina ladha karibu kabisa. Hivyo aiskrimu ina ladha ya aiskrimu tu. Inaonekana tu kama hazina. Watu huiinua juu, mwanga unaigusa, na barabara nzima inageuka kutazama. Kisha wanaila polepole sana, au upepo unaipata, na dhahabu inateleza barabarani, na kila mtu anacheka.