The rainy season was over this year in Japan and it was a very short term. Usually the rainy season continues for about one month and it is over in the middle of July. It’s a first time in history the rainy season is over so early and so short. The very hot summer weather has begun in Japan.
In this hot and humidity weather, ice cream is perfect to cool your body!
I’m going to share a Japanese style ice cream called “Taiyaki ice cream” today.
TAIYAKI たいやき
Taiyaki is a hot snack in the shape of seabream and filled with usually red bean paste, also custard cream. The dough is like a pan cake and texture of it is crispy outside but it ‘s very hot due to the hot red bean paste inside. It’s a popular street food and you can eat it by just one hand.
By the way there are many kinds of Taiyaki these days that one of them is made from the danish pastry dough called “croissant Taiyaki, some Taiyaki contains some cream cheese or a lot of kinds of cream. Another Taiyaki also called “winged Taiyaki” it has additional crispy layer around the Taiyaki so that you can enjoy the crispy texture and the part of the wing brings out the flavor of the ingredients.
A full of sweet bean paste and ice cream in Taiyaki
I found the ice cream Taiyaki in the shop of Chateraise where is a famous Japanese sweets shops sell cakes, Japanese confectioneries, Japanese wine and ice creams.
The ice cream Taiyaki called “The full of red bean paste from head to tail しっぽまであん”.
The Taiyaki ice cream is very similar the picture printed on the plastic bag even though many contents are nothing about their pictures printed around the world.
It’s 15 centimeters in diameter like a real Taiyaki size.
The inside of the ice cream is full of vanilla ice cream and sweet red bran paste from head to tail. The amount of vanilla ice cream is five times as much as sweet red bean paste.
The skin of the ice cream is monaka.
Monaka もなか
Monaka is one of the traditional Japanese confectioneries. It’s usually gooey red bean paste inside wrapped with very thin waffle skin made from rice cake. There are some kinds of Monakas containing rice cakes, walnuts, chocolates and more. Also there are variety shapes of Monaka like a form of the flower, a rectangle, and circle. The contains like red bean pastes are between two thin waffle skins. It’s quite sweet so that it’s not so much big to eat enjoyable.
Summary
I introduced about Taiyaki たいやき, Monakaもなか, and Taiyaki ice cream today. The Japanese traditional sweets have been be popular in various shapes. When you visit Japan, you can try some Japanese traditional sweets and ice creams too!
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