This bubble gum is sold for 55 years. I think all the Japanese to have had eaten this in a childhood. It is only 10 yen.
We bought it at dagasi-shop. Dagashi is confectionery aimed at children that can be bought for a small amount of money, such as pocket money.
Four gum is in the small box. There is coating of the sugar around gum. I like eating four drops at a time. It is small happiness.
This is a souvenir of Chiba. And this red dog is Chi-ba kun. He is a mascot character of Chiba. Seeing from the side, it has a shape of Chiba in him. Wow, He is not just a dog.
This cookie tastes of the peanut butter. Chiba's famous produce is peanut.
This is 'Yubeshi' which I bought in Aizu region of Fukushima.
Ii is made of glutinous rice and walnuts. And It is flavored basically with soy sauce and has a sweet and salty taste because of the sweetness of sugar/muscovado sugar.
Yubeshi is made in throughout Japan. And it has various shapes, taste exists in each place of the whole country.
I like this Yubeshi. It is additive-free and tastes of nature.
I had a trip to Fukusima this week. And I bought some souvenirs.
This is a 'Mamador', one of the popular sweets in Fukushima. It is consisting of cake filled with bean jam of the milk taste. I love this!
This is a steamed bun called Nagoyan a specialty of Nagoya city. And this is loved by everyone from children to adults for more than 5 decades.
I think that perfectly round form is very cute.
It is 'egg yolk sauce' to enter inside. The outside mixed honey and an egg, sugar with and baked it.
There are Monaka which modelled cherry blossoms and a plum . It is a happy wagashi in hope of peace continuing.
White bean jam is in pink monaka, and strained sweet red beans is in white. Both was delicious. I think Japanese sweets are not just delicious, you can also savior the season through their looks.
Ichigo daifuku is a kind of Japanese confection consisting of a strawberry inside 'daifuku', which is a rice cake stuffed with sweet bean paste. We can buy it from December around May when strawberries are in season. Sweetness of bean jam matches the acidity of the strawberry well. when strawberries are in season.
This strawberry is length of around 5 centimeters. I bought this at Tomiokaya in Mishima city.
Hoshigaki is a kind of dried fruit made by drying Japanese persimmons. When I bark an astringent persimmon produced in autumn and air it outside for 1-2weeks, it is in sweet dried fruit. The surface becomes white by itself when it dries up. It is not covered with sugar. The taste is sweet of nature, it is very delicious. I like it.
Sakuramochi is a variety of wagashi, or Japanese confectionery, covered with a leaf of sakura. The style that dumplings wrapped with plant leaves like Sakuramochi is unique to Japan.
Sakuramochi can be eaten with or without the sakura leaf. In addition, form and the thickness of the rice cake seem to vary according to a district. This sakuramochi is thin that this rice cake is white and is transparent. The rice cake smelled the cherry tree and was unique taste. I am not sure that this taste s liked by a foreigner.
This is a cheese cake of the mouthful size. I like cheese, much more cheese cake.
This cheescake has rich feeling of unbaked cheese cake, very delicious!
This cake seems to use the good-quality cream cheese. The taste was not too much sweet that has some taste of lemon. As for three, I ate this.
Fujiya is the confectionery company which is famous for candy called Milkey. It is a confection of cream such as Milkey coated with chocolate, very sweet and delicious. A lot of delicious chocolate is in Japan. Above all, this chocolate is cheap (only 100yen) and can buy it anywhere.
12 chocolate is in this package. And, Each one has its own character's face. Very cute...
Omochi means rice cake. In the house of my parents, we make rice cake every year-end. The handmade rice cake is delicious very sticky. This picture is sliced and dried rice cake. It was called 'kiri-mochi'.
It becomes the zoni when we stew this in vegetables and soup stock. Or, just bake it while it is hot and attach soy flour (Kinako) or wrapping it with a sheet of seaweed and putting soybean source on it. I think this is food necessary for Japanese life.
Today, I went to Fujinomiya city near Mt.Fuji. And I found this cute candy.
This candy is a kind of candy called 'Kintaroame'. Kintaroame is a bar of candy that is produced using a special technique. It is a cylindrical candy made so that Kintaro's face appears wherever it is sliced. As for this, Mt. Fuji was made in place of Kintaro.
You can buy it at Fujinomiya-Omiya-yokocho.
Kurizenzai is sweet made with soft beans (e.g. adzuki) and chestnuts. These are types of bean paste made by boiling azuki and chestnut with sugar. Zenzai has some variations. For example, that are served in a bowl with mochi (sticky rice cake), shiratama dango (dumplings made of sticky rice flour called shiratamako), and with icecream and fruits.
The etymology of zenzai seems to be a Buddhism word, or it's said to come from the words of the Ikkyu reverend. All mean, "I feel that it is good and praise it" in Kanji.
I got this Kurizenzai from one of the relatives. Before eating, it should be heated using a microwave oven or hot water.
