November 20, 2006
Department store sweets
金沢和音(池袋東武)： かぼちゃ餅（道明寺）、つき餅（つぶあん）、栗大福。
Pumpkin mochi(pumpkin paste inside), Tsuki mochi(mochi freshly made from rice-pounding, lightly salted red bean on top), and chestnut daifuku. All are sticky and nice. The two mochi have harder texture while the daifuku has very soft skin.
銀座かずや
A very popular Japanese sweet which gets sold out quickly - people queue up outside the shop before it opens apparently. The fresh ones are probably only sold in the original shop in Ginza, but my friend got the packed version in a department store. The matcha taste is so strong and bitter, which I like a lot, the texture is smooth and sticky.
ふるや古賀音庵
粟だんご。大福。
Dango with corn paste on top is nice, very sticky and chewy. Daifuku with red bean paste is okay.
鎌倉源吉兆庵
栗雅楽： 栗餡を二層のしぐれで包み込んだ。
嘉千栗： 蜜漬けした栗を栗きんとんで包んだ。
Two sweets made from chestnuts. Not really my favourite...
扇屋
More chestnut sweets. The one on the left has chestnut paste and red bean inside, better than the one on the right, which I can't recall the taste at all...
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Oh yeah there are oversea branches! They have a lot of packed sweets, which can last longer. But for Japanese sweets, I only like their fresh ones, which usually expire on the day...
seat | November 24, 2006 05:04 PM
I think there's 源吉兆庵 in LA (just in case the kanji doesn't show up, the 4th one) though I'm not that interested in Japanese chestnut sweets. Those mochi looks more tempting!
Joan | November 23, 2006 05:26 PM
Pics of Japanese sweets that I have accumulated for the past two months. ^^;; Some are nice, but some are so-so. I put so much effort taking the pictures, may as well put them all up.
The corn paste is made from corn only, slightly salted. Actually, a lot of Japanese sweets are a bit salty as well as sweet, which I really like! The dango are mocho balls on a stick.
seat | November 22, 2006 01:20 AM
Hey gorgeous pictures (And perfectly dissect ^^;;)! The mochi looks so delicate and beautiful! The pumpkin one...I can't imagine what it'd taste like....mouth-watering! I'd sure get the the macha pudding.
Corn paste...hmm...maybe the texture would be similar to that taro corn paste sweet from the thai sweet shop I got before.
Freda | November 21, 2006 03:55 PM
パックのやつは新宿デパートの限定販売だって。
この前、和菓子の店で「栗ぜんざい」を頼んだら、
「粟ぜんざい」だった、、、
seat | November 21, 2006 12:03 AM
和菓子の栗三昧じゃ～ん＾＾
粟と栗って漢字が似てて、粟だんごが栗だんごに見えた！
かずやは銀座以外でも売ってるの？
やっこ | November 20, 2006 11:38 PM
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