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Aria Ohfunato, Iwate, Japann
Category Sweet
Product White chocolate coated manju
Calorie 97.4kcal / 1manju
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kamome no tamago
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MiNi KaMoMe No TaMaGo (Small sea gull's egg)
Name 　 Mini Kamome No Tamago
Aria Ohfunato, Iwate, Japann
Category Sweet
Product White chocolate coated manju
Calorie 97.4kcal / 1manju
HP 　　 http://www.saitoseika.co.jp/top.php
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Ofunato was a small candy store
"candy store Saito," has started to develop in 1952,
"gull egg" has grown to represent the Northeast now famous confection.
However, leading up to the current taste and shape,
there was a change in thinking and ingenuity, and a variety of challenges and failures.
We will deliver untold story behind the birth of the "seagull egg."
Store at the time of its inception (circa 1953)Saito roots of confectionery, dates back to the taste of grandma's homemade Kinue Toshiaki Saito grandmother of the current president.
Kinue politics and her husband, was a large farmhouse (Orikabe village Murone present) village of the southern area of Orikabe county Higashiiwai Village, Iwate Prefecture. Will fail in the sericulture however large. Two people lost all the property will then go into the mountains and began a deep charcoal (Ohara Daito town now) Ohara next village. It was fine to make a living people and, in 1933, received the recommendation of Toshio second son was working at the Iron Works of Ofunato, I decided to leave the town.
Ofunato a large port city of Sanriku. The town was full of vitality. Has been also constructed a large cement factory, just in front of the house every day Saito, a large number of workers was the street. Kinue is against those people, and have started Daifuku, a business and sell handmade boiled Beshi. Kinue make calls the reputation of taste, "Saito toys" was was very prosperous.It was to resume business the "toys Saito," had been closed during the war was that of 1948.To do this, "food business is business. Has been stable at any age is important to credit" and there was, the idea of Kinue. Workshop is a converted hallway, a small square meters of space. Cooperate for the whole family, I began to make Mochigashi.
Since 1950, especially focusing on the signboard of "Saito pastry shop", it is now also engaged in sweets. Toshio Toshiaki father of current president, I thought at this time.
<The original shop has, that we lay the pastry making, even though it made ​​the sweets of course, the long-established Japanese confectionery shop can not compete very will.Something out of the characteristics of the shop, must not devise a distinctive confectionery>
came up, and squeezed the wisdom, tourism was the sweets as souvenirs. Toshio has been thought of Ofunato attractive tourist destination with a beautiful sea of Sanriku and What would. It came to mind was the sight of seagulls and dashing (dashing) over the ocean blue.As soon as the "child of sea urchin" "Pinus parviflora" "Seagull off" "seagull egg", I also came up with the trade name of five and in one fell swoop. Toshio is "seagull egg" at once (in 1999 and later renamed "gull egg") Worked on commercialization. Is that of 1951. It is aimed Toshio was sponge cake bun in the shape of a seagull egg. Castella, baked sweets such as candy, water mix the flour, sugar, eggs. In this sponge cake, put a draft of burning it was the idea of Toshio yolk. Furthermore, in order to get a taste of the unique features of pastry shops, Saito, wisdom has been squeezed. As a result, came up with that kneading the dough sponge cake margarine. It called on Western-style sweets knead together ingredients, in the pure tradition-minded artisan sweets can not imagine, was a novel idea of unique amateur. Looking at the prototype actually eat, is positive and mellow, indescribable flavor to the taste of sponge cake until it was finished in the distinctive taste. Toshio has had the confidence.
<Well, go if this taste. Surely, it should get an acceptance to a lot of people ...>
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Uploaded by 15754267 on Apr eight, two thousand and twelve
One year from the earthquake, I went to district Okirai Ofunato. Temporary store in the town earlier was a lot of rubble has been installed is put away.
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Uploaded by 15754267 on Mar twenty-five, 2012
We have taken place one year, was from the city of Miyagi Prefecture Earthquake Kesennuma East. Rubble, but also have become less noticeable Kesennuma, proceed disaster prevention plan measures and lot number of subsidence, and urban planning what not, every major change is observed.
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Snack Review: Kamome no Tamago (Seagull’s Egg)
Posted by: Meowing in Japan on: May 29, 2011
Today, I am going to review one of my favorite Japanese souvenirs,Kamome no Tamago. My former supervisor was up in Northern Japan doing some earthquake cleanup recently and kindly brought me back a box. I think he remembered that I liked them because I asked him to pick me up a box 2 years ago when he last made a trip up to that area.
I first had Kamome no Tamago a couple years ago, when I was visiting my host family in Nagoya during one of my summers off from college. My host mother’s friend had gotten a box from her family living in Iwate Prefecture. Needless to say, it was love at first bite. I could not remember the name of this dessert for the life of me until I was served it again when I began living in Toyama Prefecture as a participant on the JET Program. I always make a point of getting it when I see it around — although it is pretty rare to see it anywhere outside of the Tohoku Region of Japan unless there is a regional fair of sorts at the department store or supermarket.
Ok, now on to the review. Kamome no Tamago literally translates to Seagull’s Egg in English. This souvenir is specific to Iwate Prefecture, aside from being available at regional fairs at supermarkets/department stores as I mentioned above. As the name of this souvenir implies, this dessert is sculpted to look like a seagull egg.
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They really do a good job of mimicking the seagull egg with this dessert. The “white” of the egg consists of the outside layer of white chocolate and the beginning of the cake-like manjuu outside. The “yolk” consists of a delicious mess of white bean paste and sugar. White bean paste unlike red bean paste has a very mild taste. I don’t think that white bean paste would offend red bean paste haters. If you want a Japanese dessert that would appeal to the Western palate, I believe this is the one to buy.
Basically this is a white bean paste manjuu covered in white chocolate. You can’t go too much wrong with that unless you hate Japanese desserts. But then we can’t be friends, can we?
This dessert is so popular that it has inspired knock-offs all throughout Japan. The most notable one I have run across is Raicho no Tamago or Thunderbird’s Egg, which can be found in Toyama Prefecture. I don’t recommend it though. In this case, Iwate Prefecture’s original Kamome no Tamago wins out.
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