This is the bean-jam-filled wafers which did the model of the wild boar. And this is a famous sweet of the Izu district.
In this district, there is a theme park where the show of the wild boar is seen in, and there is a restaurant serving the meat of the wild boar.
The meat of the wild boar tastes wild seems to be delicious. I have never try that before.
And this bean-jam-filled wafers are normal taste. Because a wild boar is a too unfamiliar animal, I enjoyed this bean-jam-filled wafers.
This is a baked confectionery of a pistachio and the taste of franc boise. Madeleine and Financier are small French cake. But this cakes are made in Kobe-city. Kobe-shi adopted Western stylish culture for a long time. It is not exaggeration even if I say the most refined town in Japan.
The taste is very orthodox. But how to use material is luxurious and thinks that it is delicious.
Monaka a wafer cake filled with red (or white) bean jam. This monaka uses peanut with white bean. The flavor of the peanut was fragrant and was delicious.
The peanut is regarded as lucky food in Japan. Because two beans are in one sheath. It is like a happy couple. I think this sweet is so conceptual.
And this box has a shape of the peanut. This is very cute. I think to keep it without throwing it away.
Red and the white combination are said to be lucky in Japan. We can find these color pattern in a traditional wedding ceremony and a festival.
You can buy this monaka in Chiba. Chiba's famous produce is peanut.
Yoneya "Peanut Monaka"This is a jelly cake as the hydrangea. Hydrangea is beautiful flower that is originally from Asia. It is typical flower that blooms in the season of baiu (June) in Japan.
Though the taste are not so delicious, they are look cute.
The Japanese pear has a shape of the apple.The texture is Chari Chari. The Japanese pear is different from the pear in both the form and the texture. But the fragrance that is good almost as same as a pear.
This is the sherbet which was in the container of the form such as the Japanese pear. It is refreshing sweetness and looks fan.
This is gumi candy of the energy drink taste. And, This is a product in commemoration of the 20th anniversary than release.
The texture is hard and taste is very sour. I like this.
This is very sweet apple juice from Aomori. Aomori is famous of apple. Particularly, for sweet juice, they use the apple which they grow without cutting a leaf until it crop. Because it becomes the delicious apple by nourishment made with a leaf, as for the apple, the which they harvested without taking the leaf till the last becomes delicious.
It is very smooth and delicious apple juice.
Do you like the blue food? The food of a blue color is rare in Japan.
This is a soda pop fizzing candie (Ramune) is covered with white chocolate. And sour powder on it.
The texture is crunchy inside. It is interesting so strange taste.
Do you know "The Tale of Heike" ? The Tale of the Heike is an epic military saga describing the rise and fall of the powerful 12th-century Heike clan.
I must confess that I understand it no better than you.
This pie seems to make the shield which Heike used. On the piecrust, there are granulated sugar and raisin. I think it is a pie for families.
SANRITSU CONFECTIONERY
The nutritive value is high and is the sweets which is delicious with simplicity.
Suzunoya
Yokan is a thick jellied sweet made of azuki bean paste, kanten and sugar. The common yokan is a black color, but this is transparent orange. This is because the jam of the loquat is contained. And this yokan made of white bean jam instead of normal azuki bean paste.
This yokan is cooked in Tomiura district of Chiba. In this district, a climate is warm, and a delicious loquat is made.I do not know whether a loquat is eaten any place other than Japan. The loquat is fruit of the early summer. It is very refined and smells sweet subtly.
For a foreign person, yokan may be strange food. But, Please try it if you have the chance.
Kaneki Seibei-Shouten"Biwa Yokan"
This is the candy which I got by a Malaysian souvenir. And It is a Japanese cartoon character "Doraemon". It is a popular comic following more than 30 years in Japan. The chief character of these comics is a cat form robot called "Doraemon". Do you know about him? He comes over from the future of the 22nd century and saves a boy with various tools. And the boy's name is "Nobita". When he has been troubled, he always call for help to "Doraemon" immediately. So I do not like him very much.
"Doraemon" seems to be particularly popular in Southeast Asia. I am glad that I have you like a Japanese character abroad even if I dislike it.
About the candy, I thought that a thing made in Japan was more delicious. The overseas sweets are also interesting. But after all I realized high quality of the Japanese sweets again.
This is a my favorite gummi candy , NOBEL Confectionery "Sours". It is a kind of the hard gumi. I think it is as hard as haribo's one. A characteristic of the Sours gumi is that powder with the acidity is attached around. It resembled grape juice taste and delicious.
I think that the gumi of fruit taste made in Japan is very delicious. I liked the taste of the Wenzhou mandarin orange most so far, but it is not released now. I want to try it if new taste is released. New flavor is released from next to next.
These are Umeboshi that are pickled Japanese Ume(plum).
After having done food preserved in salt and Shiso(Japanese basil), I dried the fruit of the plum in the sun.I make this in my house in this season. Amazingly,it can preserve more than 100 years if be in good.
The taste is very sour. It match white rice very much, I put it in a rice ball.
Depending on a district, People may use the honey to add sweetness to it.
The sweet pickled ume is delicious too.
Piper retrofractum is the world's oldest pepper and is said to be the only pepper native to Ishigaki iIsland in Okinawa. This spice has a very good smell that blended pepper with cinnamon. In addition to a sharp taste of the pepper, the feature is that it have a unique sweet fragrance!
It is Yamayoshi seika to make this. Very nice potato chips so we can taste Okinawa feeling.
This package is so cute.
In the days of a child, I bought cotton candy in the fair of the festival. Now I can buy it now in a supermarket. It is compressed than the cotton candy of the festival and resembles the cotton of the cushion.The taste is very sweet!
It is Karashimentaiko-flavored potato chips. Karashimentaiko is prepared pollac roe. Karashi-mentaiko is a specialty of Hakata (Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture) and also known as a souvenir from the Kyushu region and Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is picklespickled he egg of the cod and salt and a red pepper.
Kanefuku is the famous company of delicious Karashimentaiko. This potato chips uses Kanefuku's Karashimentaiko. And it is a product of Calbee.
It is slightly hot and delicious.
I buy dessert almost every day recently inSeven-Eleven.
It is simply jellify brown sugar with agar. Serve with soy flour according to your taste.I thing deep taste of the brown sugar is great. It may be delicious even if I serve with ice cream.
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The dietary fiber included in agar a lot is effective in suppressing the rise in blood sugar level.
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Anmitsu is a kind of Japanese confectionery. Rice-flour dumpling and bean jam, a yellow peach, a mandarin orange, a cherry, a red pea on cubes of agar gelatin. It is eaten with syrup (molasses or dark molasses) poured over it.
I fonund it in Seven-Eleven.
Something like table tennis ball is a Rice-flour dumpling.It is silky and delisious.
It is a cubes of agar gelatin. Super delicious.
It is japanese sweets using powdered green tea to from Uji (Kyoto) , pudding, white bean jam, whip. It is the dessert which is slightly refreshing like a mousse. Powdered green tea has unique bitterness, but this dessert is not bitter in the same way as green tea ice cream.
We can also buy it at Seven-Eleven.
This is gelidium jelly .It is called tokoroten in Japanese. And it is one of the my favorite summer foods.
It is suitable for diet at approximately 14 kilocalorie per 1 pack. Most of these ingredients are water.It is used for materials of the agar, and the agar is good during diet, and the main material is famous for a kind of the seaweed called the agar-agar as used ingredients. There is little nourishment as a matter of course.
It is from Kanto and to the north and the Chugoku district and to the west and attaches sum mustard and sesame to the thing which I hung mixture of vinegar and soy sauce or mixture of vinegar, soy sauce and sugar and eats.
It is a stick candy for kids. "Kari-Pori" is an onomatopoeia. I think it's expresses a sound to gnaw. Japanese likes onomatopoeia, and there are words more than 4,500 kinds. Anyway,this candy is sour so as to be dangerous.
Kabaya" Dangerous-ppa"
Two kinds of candy of lemon taste and the black grape taste and powder of sour taste are contained in this package.
And a quiz and comics are printed on the back of this.You will find both of these interesting.
It is a another sweet from Seven-Eleven.
The good point of this cake is using Tanna milk that is local ingredients for raw materials. They are a delicious milk company which the history is old in Shizuoka Prefecture.They have a sightseeing farm and make cheese and yogurt. I really like it.
And This pudding was also delicious, too.
| raw materials | ||
|---|---|---|
| Milk | Cream | |
| Egg | Granulated sugar | |
| condensed milk | Pudding syrup | |
| iquors | Chocolate | |
| Wheat flour | Starch syrup | |
| Oils and fats processed food | Butter | |
| Emulsifier | hickening | |
| Processing starch | Carcinoid pigment | |
| Fragrance | * Allergy advice; contains soya | |
We can buy real sweets at a convenience store in Japan.
This is a tiramisu sold in Seven-Eleven.
The bottom is made of sponge cake. And middle is a chocolate. And top is a mousse of mascarpone cheese and topped with crispy chocolate cookie.
I thins it is not too bad. When you want to eat sweets a little, You can be satisfied.
| Raw materials | |
|---|---|
| Whip cream | Natural cheese |
| Egg | Sugar |
| Milk | Wheat flour |
| Associate chocolate | Coffee |
| Butter | Almond |
| Adjustment cocoa | Gelatin |
| Whisky and wine | Salt |
| Emulsifier | Expanding agent |
| Polysaccharide (sugar polymer containg multiple (many) component simple sugars) |
Processing starch |
| Cyclic oligo | VC |
| Lactic acid | Glycine |
| Acidulant | Sweetener (ass PAM tail) caramel pigment |
| Fragrance | - |
| * Allergy advice; contains soya | |
This fluffy cake containing custard cream instead. And this girl is Peko.
She is a mascot character of Fujiya since 1950.I think that most Japanese become the smile when they watch her.
The Profile of her
Native place: The land of dreams which there is elsewhere on the earth.
The origin of her name: From Tohoku dialect "Beco" expressing a calf.
Age: Everlasting 6 years old.
Sex: Girl
Height: 100cm
The weight: 15 kg
A figure: bust 58cm, waist 55cm, hips 63cm.
Favorite play: baseball, hopping
Favorite animal: Puppy
Kakigoori is shaved ice topped with flavored syrup.Summer in Japan is very humidand and today's temperature exceeded 30 degrees. Kakigoori is a Japanese summer tradition. I feel more alert after eating it. It is better than a cup of coffee.
Takoyaki means octopus dumplings which are very popular food in Japan.
Takoyaki is wet round pastry made from flour, eggs, ginger, and various ingredients and is stuffed with diced octopus. We make it by frying the mixture on a special steel plate with dents and rolling it as it is being cooked until ball-shaped. And We put special sauce, similar to Worcestershire sauce, and mayonnaise or bonito stock and garnish bonito flakes and nori on it.It wad popularized in Osaka ( Naniwa ).
Now, We can eat the takoyaki anywhere in Japan, but after all the genuine takoyaki is only in Osaka.
It is a rice cracker of the takoyaki taste, just a souvenir from Osaka. It is very interesting at a point to express taste of the takoyaki well, but it is not genuine.
Takoyaki rice crackersThis is a small Manju ( A bun filled with sweet bean paste) of Ehime of the Shikoku district. There are many legends concerning the raccoon dog in Ehime. The raccoon dog has mysterious power and disguises myself as a person and saves the life of human.
The raccoon dog is not included in an ingredient. We can eat it without worry.
The outside is white bean jam and an egg yolk, glue made of glutinous rice (the thing which powdered the thing which I steamed glutinous rice, and was dried finely) and kneaded.The inside is the bean jam which I made with an adzuki bean of Hokkaido.
It is easy to eat at mouthful size. And It is 550 yen with 12.
I got this from the co-worker of the company today.
This is one of my favorite sweets, "Akafuku".I think it is the most famous Japanese sweet ,and it has the history of 300 years.That’s amazing!
It comes from famous Shinto shrine of Japan, Ise-jingu Grand Shrine.And It is sold in near Ise-jingu Grand Shrine from 5:00 a.m. to treat a person praying at there.
There is thick strained sweet red beans on a rice cake.That is very simple and also very delicious. The raw materials are sugar, an adzuki bean (Hokkaido product), glutinous rice (domestic production), that's all.
Akafuku
It is a famous Japanese sweet, You can buy it at the main station of Tokai district and Kanto.
My boyfriend bought some doughnuts at mister Doughnut yesterday.
The one in the front is "is Golden chocolate".
The one in the back is topped with glaze of the lemon and the base is a chocolate doughnut.I can not find it's name.
Mister Doughnut gives some doughnuts ussing Japanese ingredients and does it. For example, there are using the buckwheat flour and soybean flour .And there are having brown sugar and black syrup, the powdered green tea for a topping.
Actually, I have not yet tried doughnuts like Japan because I liked American doughnuts of a classic type. But ,I will write an impression if there is an opportunity to eat it.
Daifuku is a soft rice cake stuffed with sweetened bean jam. And it is a Japanese sweet representing the Edo era.
This is a special Daifuku for summer, "Hiyashi Daifuku". The texture is soft and melts away. This is a novel because agar is mixed.
My grandmother likes this very much.
You can buy this at Kikunoya in Ginza.
Ingredients here.
Adzuki bean , Sugar , Starch , Rice cake powder , Grape sugar , Agar , Polysaccharide (sugar polymer containg multiple (many) component simple sugars) , Eggshell calcium , Trehalose
