Peanut Monaka

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"

Hydrangea Gelly

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.

Japanese Pear Sherbet

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.

Imuraya "Nashi-ball"

Shigekix gumi

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.

UHA MIkakuto "Shigekix"

Apple Juice

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.

Seiken "Hatorazu Ringo"

Soda pop with Chocolate

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.

Kabaya

Heike pie

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

Kinako stick

Kinako (soy flour) stick is the traditional cheap candy which it covered with soy flour powder.It made from sugar or starch syrup.
Soy flour powderpowder is the processed food which is the nearest to the soybean that roasting powdered it. And Natural polyphenol is included in it, and calcium, a vegetable fiber, the iron content are fully included, too.

The nutritive value is high and is the sweets which is delicious with simplicity.
Suzunoya

Loquat Yokan

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"

Doraemon Candy

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.