a list of the most popular Japanese desserts

if you are lovers of Japanese food, you should be familiar with Japanese desserts. but for those of you are have never felt you shall taste. and even some desserts Japan actually favored by bacpackers, for the first time a new you go to Japan and confused to choose a Japanese dessert, maybe a list of some Japanese desserts can be petrified .

1. Dorayaki

Japanese desserts first is dorayaki .

do you know dorayaki is a favorite food of young people in Japan . because it tastes sweet and gentle, many young people who love it .in the anime movies Doraemon, in describing dorayaki cake very favored by nobita, Doraemon and his friends. another name of dorayaki is mikasa, made of bread castella , red bean paste and there is also use the banana jam . for backpackers who like pancake , desserts dorayaki is very right. you will not be difficult to find dorayaki because any Japanese restaurants sell freely. even the street vendors also sell it .

2. Anpan

         
Japanese desserts this one is made of sweet bread rolls were given sesame, chestnuts, and green beans. Its main ingredient is red bean paste that is healthier for consumption. the history behind the delicious anpan is a samurai named Yasubei kimura . anpan made by Yasubei kimura in the Meiji era in 1875 in a bakery named buneido. facts about anpan bring cultural influence in Japan, one of the popular ones like Clannad anime anpan involved in the story. it is very interesting, it is very regrettable for the backpackers if not tasted anpan.

3. Taiyaki

taiyaki is a fish-shaped cake containing red bean paste. Its main ingredients are flour, sugar, eggs and water. This cake was familiar to lovers of cake. in addition to red bean paste there also Taiyaki version of green bean paste, cheese, chocolate and sweet potatoes. even Taiyaki often served with okonomiyaki and gyoza. If you have never tried Taiyaki, you can put into your list of Japanese desserts

4. Dango

This japanese desserts is usually served accompanied with green tea and your fillings and sauces are varied. While that is consumed throughout the year, there are several varieties that are traditionally eaten in specific seasons. The dango are presented strung on a skewer and bathed in a sweet sauce .

Hanami dango which has three colors and the name of Hanami is traditionally made during the season of contemplation of cherry blossoms .

If you still doubt whether or not you have seen, we are going to teach as many dango series appears in the manga / anime internationally known and sure remember. Samurai Champloo, the characters eat dango several times, as in the photo, where Fuu enjoy a couple of them. Usagi Tsukino, our beloved Sailor Moon, also dreams try these delicious little balls, like Wallker Allen D. Gray Man and the next two images correspond to Yotsuba and Clannad. Of the latter, Clannad, we should mention that there are a lot of images in the series containing dumplings and its protagonist, Nagisa Furukawa, it has an obsession with an older program called "Great Family Dango Dango or Daikazoku" and constantly sings her song is for this reason that the ending of the anime is a song like a lullaby dedicated entirely to dumplings.

5. Melonpan

a melonpan is one of the few Japanese desserts sweet. They're kind of sweet rolls in the shape of half a melon, bread textured inside and crunchy on the outside layer. The original melonpan need not have melon flavored simply is how half melon and especially the wrinkled surface texture that gives it its name. But gradually many bakeries have evolved the concept adding flavor to melon melonpan. It sounds like a bad combination, but the more I have the flavor of melon melonpan I like. If you come travel Japan do not fail to try, you can find in any bakery melonpan or 24-hour convenience store. The melonpan can also be found in parts of China and Korea.

6. Imagawayaki

      A quantity of Japanese desserts habit vegetables as ingredients, such as edamame (soybeans, from swell). Imagawayaki are uniform to Dorayaki, but the latter are two part frieze interlard around the repletion after culinary art, and are often ministering to passionless. It is made of brass in a singular unite (resembling to a chatter strength, but without the honeycomb exemplar), and fill with fragrant azuki bean bygone, although it is decorous increasingly public to custom a wider difference of fillings such as bare-bones custard, another pear custards and uphold, drub, distinct flesh and producer fillings, potato and mayonnaise. It constitutes an opulent stuffing for some unwritten Japanese desserts. We distinguish qualifier to be redolent, but odorous ingredients are also the fret now. The fuse of balmy and odorous in our language can be deceitfully tempting . Imagawayaki is a Japanese pudding often found at Japanese festivals as well as beyond of Japan.  

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