Japanese comfort shops are recognized for serving up nice meals, however this month FamilyMart is stealing the highlight with a brand new duo of sweets everybody will wish to attempt. Called Neo Wagashi, this new launch takes two of Japan’s most well-known wagashi (conventional Japanese sweets) and brings them into the twenty first century with a complete new look.
The first candy to be given a contemporary overhaul is the dorayaki, which often seems as a flat, spherical pancake-type candy, with pink bean paste in between the 2 palm-sized pancake layers. FamilyMart has stored the sandwich type however raised it up, calling the brand new deal with the Extra Thick Dorayaki Burger.
The large filling of strawberry mousse and pink bean paste definitely makes it look extra like a burger than a sandwich, and Family Mart says it was born out of a want to create a candy that prospects might “bite into and devour like a hamburger”. After researching the standard measurements of a mouth when totally opened, they settled on a thickness of roughly 4 centimeters as the right measurement to attain this hamburger-esque sensation.
The filling was perfected after 30 repeated trials, leading to a mousse that’s simply agency sufficient to maintain the dorayaki from falling aside, even whereas biting into it.
The second Neo Wagashi is the Fluffy Nama Daifuku, which differs from common daifuku (small spherical mochi rice truffles with a candy filling) by having a marshmallow-like texture.
The springiness is a results of including recent cream to the mochi, with the matcha whipped cream and brown sugar syrup centre offering a melty, fluffy texture to boost the marshmallow-like mouthfeel.
The new launch is all a part of FamilyMart’s initiative to “make customers happy”, and judging by the look of the sweets, they’ll positively be placing a smile on everybody’s faces. The Dorayaki Burger retails for 268 yen and the Nama Daifuku retails for 149 yen.
Source, photographs: Press launch
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