When a guest is served traditional Japanese Sweets, tea is traditionally a pleasant combination, and vice versa. A person might think it to be a Japanese custom. If you go to a Sencha tea ceremony party, you must first taste Sencha tea, and then you will have sweets. Because you should put the first priority on tasting delicious tea in the Sencha tea ceremony party. When taking small sips of the tea, you will find the taste to be deep and satisfying. In sencha tea ceremony you may find it unnecessary to have sweets because you could be fully satisfied with just the sweet essence of the tea. So you have smaller sweets or dried sweets that are called Higashi in Sencha tea ceremony party.