Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
Chado (茶道), the tea ceremony is one of the traditional Japanese cultures loved by many overseas people, where the Japanese sweet called “Wagashi (和菓子)” is usually served first, and then Matcha green tea is...
Convenience stores handle a wide range of foods effectively, which reflects the food culture of each country, so you could not find your favorite convenient foods unique to your country at convenience stores in...
As I wrote about Wagashi (和菓子) yesterday, the Japanese word refers to the traditional Japanese sweets that include various different types of confections. Among such Japanese sweets, Manju (饅頭) (Amazon.com) is a representative type...
Wagashi (和菓子) are traditional Japanese sweets that include various different types of confections.Thus, it is different in meaning from Okashi (お菓子). Representative examples of Wagashi sweets include Manju (饅頭), Daifuku (大福), Yokan (羊羹), and...
Have you ever heard that there are 3 different Japanese words for ‘snacks, sweets and candies’? They are Wagashi (和菓子), Okashi (お菓子), and Dagashi (駄菓子).You may know one or two of these Japanese words,...
About a month ago, I wrote about Konpeito. As you may already know, Konpeito (金平糖) is a traditional Japanese confection with about 400 years of history.The small ball-shaped sugar candy especially features its beautiful...
In Japan there are a wide variety of Japanese sweets,such as Kaminari-Okoshi(雷おこし),Uiro(ういろう), Yatsuhashi(八つ橋) and so on. These three types of Japanese sweets are local speciality goods,often bought as a souvenir. Kaminari-Okoshi Uiro Yatsuhashi...
Japanese wives sometimes call their neighbors over for tea on a holiday.And they have a chat. They generally have tea with Wagashi(和菓子),in other words,Japanese sweets,like this. We Japanese can buy ‘Wagashi’ at a grocery...
