Sweets of Japan - Chestnut

Most of the foreigners who visit Japan are impressed by the high quality of the sweets in Japan, and I think that is for the taste, beauty, and numerous variety.

Actually in Japan, there is a desire to improve oneself by selling the seasonal sweets by using the ingredients for each season for the normally sold items, and keep making new ones that are not available elsewhere without satisfying with the present state.

I am introducing this blog because an American woman who visited Japan has spelt her thoughts about the sweets of Japan on her blog site.

The author says, "I cannot forget the Japanese sweets even 2 months after returning to the United States". She said, "It was too delicious and I just cannot miss".

She said, "People who see it are overwhelmed, by the arrangement of large quantity of sweets and baked confectionary, to the extent of getting dizziness". She was amazed by the novelty of the design and said, "I could not understand the shape but it is novel" by seeing the mid-day sweets and snacks are even lined up in the bakery, red bean and cream in the Danish pastry, and the small cubic bread etc. For the croissant that is available in any country, she said, "The surface is shining, looks delicious, and got attracted".

By seeing lot of sweets, she thought, "The Japanese are really creative, and are not satisfied merely by imitating". She said, "The Japanese adapt to the very interesting taste, and the strong point is that they put something to the time honored Japanese taste" though the technology of sweets and bread were imported from the West.

I cannot introduce all the sweets at once, and will gradually introduce over a period of time.

This time it is the sweet made using the Chestnut that can be picked during autumn.

Using the chestnut means that Japan is welcoming the autumn, and in addition to the starting of harvesting the chestnut, all the shops line up the sweets using the chestnut as the season limitation of autumn because a lot of people eat this sweets and enjoy autumn.

 

The sweets that are shown here are only part of the sweets sold in Japan.

During the autumn of every year, several thousands of new sweets using the chestnut will be sold in the market.