This is the Japanese sweets called “Taiyaki”.
It’s usually a fish-shaped pancake filled with bean jam.
There is a popular Taiyaki shop near the Kyodo station!
They change the fillings everyday like custard cream, banana cream, chocolate milk, soymilk cream, chestnut cream and so on…
When I visited the shop, it was a Matcha cheese cake filling♡
Please try its taste!
Have you ever seen this sweets in Japan?
This is the Japanese sweets called “Taiyaki”. It’s usually a fish-shaped pancake filled with bean jam.
There is a popular Taiyaki shop near the Kyodo station! The name of the shop is Ogura-an. They change the fillings everyday. For example, custard cream, banana cream, chocolate milk, soymilk cream, chestnut cream and so on…
When I visited the shop, it was a Matcha cheese cake filling♡
Please try this yummy Japanese sweets!
Repeaters take photos of two weeks menu calendar.
Since I have a late winter vacation now, I visited one of my favorite area, Roppongi!
To visit this area, I usually take the subway Chiyoda line to Nogizaka station and walk to the Tokyo Midtown. In Tokyo Midtown, there is a lot of cutting-edge stores so I always enjoy the window shopping and got inspired by them.
After that, I visited the Roppongi Hills to see the beautiful illumination near the building. You can still enjoy the Christmas mood there!
In the end of walking, I visited one of my favorite Ramen shop, Gogyo. Almost every time I visit Roppongi area, I go to the restaurant. The soup of this shop is amazing. You will see soon after sipping the soup!
I hope you will enjoy other photos as well!
Can you see the white strawberries?
I visited the Harajuku area. Harajuku is located at the west side of Tokyo and next to Shibuya. Harajuku is famous for the subculture and fashion. What is more, it’s the competitive area for sweets and food!
These days, cup cake shops, pancake shops and popcorn shops from overseas are opening their stores in this small cozy area. And people line up and make a cue for long hours. I heard that the longest cue for the pancake shop was 8 hours!!!
To know the taste of famous pancake, I visited one of the famous pancake shop, the Maena cafe. (This is the shop that musician Justin Beaver came to visit spontaneously last week. ) I ordered the cinnamon pancake topped with cheese cream and Maui coffee. The combination of cinnamon sugar and coffee was amazing! I will try to recreate at home! ;-)♡
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Popcorn shops are also popular in Harajuku area!
Chicken Nanban（チキン南蛮）is one of the Japanese home meals. “Nanban” is a type of dish which has been influenced by Portugal or ethnic countries in our history.
Recipe : http://yjc.pikondev.com/japanesefood-recipe-chicken-nanban/
December, the last month of 2015 has begun!
And today, my son became 6 months old♡
I visited the Gotokuji temple near my place with my son.
Colored leaves were about to start and they were so beautiful♡
Since it’s already December but it’s still not so cold here in Tokyo.
I think you can enjoy the autumn leaves a little bit more this year!!!
What do you think they are? Close! But it’s not the Micky Mouse. 
These are the the glass bowls by IWAKI
What is more, these bowls are good match with stainless whisks.
Making the Daigaku Imo takes a little effort, but it is a Japanese sweet that is as popular as roasted sweet potatoes. The crunchy surface and chewy texture are addictive. Moderately sweet caramel syrup is also appetizing. Enjoy with green tea or Hoji-cha (roasted green tea)!
For me, Daigaku Imo was between snacks and meal. When I was young, on days when I had no appetite, I had to eat only the Daigaku Imo that I bought from outside. That is the Daigaku Imo for me.
At my son’s kindergarten, there is an opportunity to experience sweet potato harvesting in the fall. He brings fresh sweet potatoes at home. It’s too much for my family, so I usually distribute them to my neighbors and moms. Other than that, I usually just grill it or use for the Nikujaga and the Japanese curry rice instead of potatoes.
This sweet syrup-covered sweet potato is called “Daigaku Imo” in Japanese and is a sweet snack made from fried sweet potatoes covered with hard sugar cane.
“Daigaku” means the university and “Imo” means potatoes in general. You may wonder why it’s called “University”. There are several stories but I heard that there was a student from the Tokyo University who made this Daigaku Imo and sold at school to earn money for his study.
The Japanese sweet potatoes have purple color outside and beautiful creamy yellow color on the inside. These Japanese sweet potatoes are very popular overseas, and recently, branded potatoes like Japanese beef have come out. There are Beni Haruka(紅はるか), Anno Imo(安納芋), Beni Azuma(紅あずま), Silk sweet(シルクスイート) etc.
Recipe : Daigaku Imo
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on July 10, 2015. The post has been updated in September 20, 2020 with more information for the dish and with new images.
