I am in Washington, DC and find Japanese culture, traditions, etc., very interesting. I recently learned about the Yuzu baths.
I’ve heard about the Yuzu powders, but I’m wondering if they work as well as the Yuzu fruits? Also, what is the pink stuff you sometimes see (if not always) in their baths as well?
Lastly, I don’t know that I can buy Yuzu fruits in DC. Does anyone know about a reliable company that can ship Yuzu fruits and powders (I may go with powders because they’re probably cheaper) to the US? And also, is there a downside to using powders instead of the whole fruits? Aside from not being able to eat it (although you can typically drink it if it’s powdered).
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If the yuzu powders you mentioned are the kind I am thinking about, bath powder would definitely feel more different from just using yuzu fruits.
Pink stuff could be colored bath salts (meant to be like a particular famous onsen) that you can buy at some markets. Although in one extremely inexpensive old-school shitamachi sento it was a “collagen bath” that I was pretty sure was just Jello powder 🤔
probably better to post this in r/Japan
About finding yuzu in DC, you can try the suburbs. I know there’s one Japanese store in DC itself, I think off U St somewhere? But I’ve seen them at H-Mart before in Nova.
You can try the Eden Center in Falls Church too, Annandale+Centreville have a lot of Korean stores that might carry it (the Korean grocery stores seem to carry East Asian stuff in general). Lotte Plaza is another good international grocery store that might have them. The international markets here tend to rotate their produce a lot.