Sharla in Japan Hi Sharla, looking cute indeed! Don't you already own a kimono like this? I would be surprised if you don't :) Lately I wanted to try japanese sweets after watching one of your older videos about a service where you can order little boxes filled with random japanese sweets and snacks. I don't remember the name anymore. When I wanted to place an order, I had to face the sad fact that they don't ship to Hungary (yet?). :(
+Gergely Rajki There are several other companies that offer similar things! Try searching for Japanese snack subscription box, I bet you can find a company that will ship to Hungary! :D
Hello Sharla :D! I'm new to this Channel and started watching your videos to prepare for my Japan trip. I wrote down so many stores, cafes and restaurants and want to thank you for that :)! I'm watching all of your videos since a few days you're so sympathetic :D. Greetings from Germany ^--^
I think the last one are not made from gelatin, but kanten(寒天). Kanten is harder than gelatin, and made from seaweed！It is japanese traditional food. Also, it is really healthy too😉
Most of the sweets I can get at my local asian supermarket lack sweetness or have no sweetness at all. i don't know if they just don't put sugar in their sweets or the export products contain to much food preservers. Mochi cakes are only chewy here and have no taste what so ever. Sweet buns or fried sesam balls with red bean paste we can get at japanese restaurants are sweet though.
I'm literally addicted to red bean paste..lol and eating it with green tea makes you feel so relaxed for some reason. I think because it's not so heavy compared to other types of sweets.
+Strawberry Mochi It's interesting, I like red bean buns and usually the paste is ver sweet and rich when I get it but a few months ago I got one in a local China Town bakery and it was not sweet at all, plus the paste wasn't mashed all the way I guess, it had full bean shapes in it. I will not go to that place again.
Phil Nolan I usually prefer my bean paste to be smooth and not too sweet. One time tried buying these store bought, frozen red bean bun and it was awful cause the bean paste was too gritty and sugary.
Another great thing about many wagashi, is that many are traditionally low on fructose since they're sweetened by mizuame instead of sugar, which is pretty much pure glucose, though because of that the sweetness is much milder. So it's healthy and delicious.
Had a get together with friends tonight and took monaka. It was great, thanks for the food tips! I really enjoy your posts, you give me good ideas of places to visit and food to try!
+ Sharla in Japan i took place in a tea ceremony while i was in Japan and they had two sweats one was white and one was green and they were like soft chewy biscuits, but they were so good and they were sweet just not in a sugary scence..
When I was growing up in Southern California we had a sister city in Japan, so from second grade on we learn Japanese in school every day. In fifth grade we had a traditional tea ceremony and we had these! I absolutely love red bean paste but now that I'm living in northern Michigan I haven't had any in 6 years! Portland Oregon has a Japanese tea Garden and they have these delicious wagashi as well
Ohhh . . these look so good, never been to Japan but have bought similar things in London in a shop called Minamoto Kitchoan and I absolutely loved it. You look great in that Kimono and the background was beautiful too.
I love dorayaki! In a Japanese tea shop in Vienna, they even sell them with different fillings like chocolate cream or cheese cake, which is super delicious :)
I literally ran to the nearest お菓子屋 and bought tons of different dorayakis after I watched this!! God, they're s delicious. Thanks for the video Sharla!
Great video! Love seeing the different wagashi and seeing you present them wearing a nice kimono really gives it a Japanese feel. Hope you make more videos like this.
LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! YOU`RE SUCH A SWEET SHARLA! A few years ago, my dad brought me lots of japanese sweets, there was a cute box decorated with chicks and the candies were little chick-shaped treats which tasted sweet and bready-like. Also brought kind of mochi paste fold in triangles and filled with red bean paste. Hope you can find them, they were simply amazing!! Greetings from Mexico!
"Kin-gyoku(錦玉)" is made by dissolving the agar. So it's harder than jelly. It also called an alias "Kohaku(琥珀:amber)". You can make a surprisingly easy. 錦玉は寒天から作られます。 だからゼリーよりかたいんです。 別名琥珀とも呼ばれています。 寒天を溶かして砂糖と果物を入れて冷やして固めればいいので意外と簡単に作れますよ！
that kimono is so pretty, I have one in a similar pattern except instead of red its a bright cobalt blue. i'm planning a trip to Japan next November and I can't wait to try these sweets. I hope I can participate in a tea ceremony as well, I've been obsessed with them for years.
I love わがし also! I'll be arriving in Tokyo next week so I will definitely have to stop by the shop you recommended to pick up some 'sweet' souvenirs for my family back home!
It's good to hear about some more unusual Japanese sweets that you don't see so often in the UK. I know what you mean about Japanese sweets being less sweet - Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Dr Pepper in Japan aren't as sweet as in the UK.
Sharla in Japan you look very pretty with the red kimono（＾ｖ＾）I always wanted to try wagashi and I didn't know there was so many different ones. Now I know the jelly one which I see a lot in popular sweets are kingyoku. I really want to try one nowxD
I love how you went all out & thought about the setting & your traditional kimono (I am not much a fan of red, but I love the extra thought & effort in the setting ;-) You go girl! )
I was there today, and got so many snacks. I had NO idea what anything was, so I really appreciate this video. They all look amazing though. The rain was so horrible, but I still enjoyed my time there. I wanted to go to the amusement park and the skytree so bad, but cies la vie. I am determined to come back soon. Me and Mt Fuji have a date. :) P.S. Your videos, as well as Rachel and Jun, and Abroad in Japan, helped me a great deal with researching my trip - hoping for the rain to go away so that I can enjoy my last few hours. :) Thanks, Nik
hey sharla. I really like your videos. I am from jamaica and I am obsessed with japan. I hope to come and teach english there someday. I have already started learning japanese and I just love all of your japan videos. especially the food ones because they all look so fascinating and I have never tried any of those things before. the only things that I have ever gotten was dango and natto. I didnt really like them but I want to try wagashi and onigiri and okonomiyaki the most!
I'm Japanese but I prefer Western confectionery to Japanese one . So I don't like bean paste ~_~; Bean paste is included in almost all of the Japanese confectionery 😢 if I must choose, i wanna eat Oshiruko which is sold by vending machine in winter 😋
The jelly is likely made with agar agar. It's a vegan sea kelp based alternative to gelatin, which comes from boiling animal bones to mix the proteins with the liquid. It's more firm than gelatin and seems to hold its shape better
I had heard of a few of the wagashi you demonstrated in this video but have not had chance to ever try any 😞 I am definitely looking forward to trying wagashi as it will be a nice change from the really sugary, sweet and almost sickly sweets we get here in the UK. That and I am in love with red bean paste though it is difficult to come across here; when I do find it, I totally stock up! (thank you local, independent stores 😉)The kimono really suited you as well 😃 haha. What was it like shooting in the RUclips space? I hear they are ridiculously well equipped? 😃 thank you for sharing this with us!Chris
I found your channel the other day and I just cannot stop watching you! I am also super jealous of this video. It is insanely hard to find Wagashi and Dango in my area (NC). I'm placing an order soon with a company I found online but shipping is $50! Oh well I guess, gotta pay to play...or just to stuff my face with deliciousness! My boyfriend and I are actually very interested in the Japanese culture, him with cars & me with the food & just everything else! We talked about going to Japan as a vacation one day but then thought it would be even better just to get married there(in the far future) lol . I clearly went off topic...but anyways! I love your videos and I cannot wait to experience what you get to everyday. Love from America!!!
First of all, you look so stunning, and second of all, I got SOOO hungry watching this!! Those sweets look so beautiful and delicious ; ; I want to try everything someday
I've eaten all sorts of Japanese wagashi since coming to Japan, but they are never sweet enough. There is a temple near me famous for Umegae Mochi. I have had that twice, and both times I thought it was more like a potato chip with no sweetness at all. I've also had zenzai and dorayaki with shiro-an, but neither one of those is quite sweet enough for me. I've had plenty of wagashi, but I prefer candy from America. However, the best wagashi I ever had was from Kumamoto. It was a cookie with a kabosu filling. OMG that was so good! It was sold as omiyage, but I ate it all myself. haha I wish I had more! Even if you came to Kyushu, I doubt you'd end up in Kumamoto. But, if you ever do, make sure to get some kabosu cookies! Edit: I have been told that the cookie from Kumamoto is not wagashi, as it is not a traditional sweet. It is just a popular omiyage. So, I'll stick with my previous "wagashi is just not sweet enough to be good" attitude. :p
Traditionally and fundamentally, wagashi trys not to exceed persimmon or dried fruits' sweetness. If you like strong flavor I recommend noshi-ume or kuri-kanoko! Mitsumane always represented the sweetest desert for when girls need to stress eat, in manga, of stories about old Edo to Meiji era.
I really wish I could get into red-bean sweets. Sometimes it takes a few tastes to actually love foods, in my case. But the red bean pastries I've had so far are painfully sweet! I tried the red bean/ice cream thing as well, which wasn't *too* bad, but... I can't pretend to like it. xD I had a mini party with all of my friends from Japan and they jokingly told me that if I said I didn't like red beans, I'd get instantly kicked off of the plane! Lol.
Mochi treats! Mmmm~ I love mochi! It's so amazing. But it is hard to describe unless some one else has had it. I love that one of the local conveyor belt sushi places serves Mochi icecream.
I would recommend Daifuku, it's so yummy and very easy to find. In Tokyo usually there's small traditional Wagashi shops in each town (station) so I would recommend to get one of those there. But ones you can get convini is fine too. And definitely try Manju too! Very easy to find as well.
Of course I read the description box! Because I'm always hoping you'll make a snapchat😂 But honestly, another great video. You're so amazing, Sharla. Your videos make me so happy. Thank you so much for everything you do. I know it must be hard to balance RUclips, a job, and having a life. But thank you for every video you make.💕💫
+Emily Morales Haha aww~ everyone keeps telling me that snapchat is really fun but I'm so busy trying to keep up all the things I have going already!! Maybe if I decide to drop facebook or something, I will replace it with snapchat ^^
Another really good sweet in Japan is mochi with the sweet bean paste inside, which I'm sure you're already familiar with. What's even tastier than though is the vanilla mochi ice cream.
There is a nice wagashi-ya 5 minutes walk from where I live and they do really good wagashi. I like their ichigo daifuku and their dorayaki (they do different flavours). The last time I have been there, since it was really hot outside, they were offering cold tea and a little wagashi to go with it! It is a really nice place!
i beat the tweet wow, that kimono looks so really pretty!!! I've only ever had wagashi and I loved it their so good. great video, and now I have more food to try!!! xD
Recently, I had a chance to try to promote a Japanese Traditional Sweets Shop to people from foreign countries.. Wondering if somebody already have introduced Japanese Traditional Sweets, I reached your channel. This is nice & cool! Thanks a lot.
I've never been to Japan but I have tried a red bean paste filled sweet (brought back from Japan for me) and the bean paste tastes similar to dates so if you like dates you will like bean paste
I love Wagashi, when I went to Japan last year I didn't get much time to try them, so now I will look out for them in Asakusa! We have a really nice Wagashi shop in London; Minamoto Kitchoan and they do a Wagashi called Okashigure and it just melts in your mouth, delicious! I love having them with green tea :)
these sounds so perfect for me... i love sweets, but i don't like food that is too sweet, and most sweets are too sweet for me. i will have to try these one day.
I've never seen Kingyoku, but it looks amazing! I will have to buy some the next time I can. My favourite wagashi though is Dorayaki with a azuki filling and also Daifuku. Yeah I love the red bean paste haha
They're so bright and colorful *▽*
They look so yummy!
You look absolutely gorgeous in that sakura kimono! 😍
+Yoshikazu Hayashi Aww thank you! It was so beautiful, I'm so happy I had the chance to try it on :D :D
Yoshikazu Hayashi It doesn't matter which JVlogger video I watch, you're in the comment section haha
Sharla in Japan
Hi Sharla,
looking cute indeed!
Don't you already own a kimono like this? I would be surprised if you don't :)
Lately I wanted to try japanese sweets after watching one of your older videos about a service where you can order little boxes filled with random japanese sweets and snacks. I don't remember the name anymore. When I wanted to place an order, I had to face the sad fact that they don't ship to Hungary (yet?). :(
+martin toner I don't like any soda D; But if I had to pick one, melon soda is probably one of the best flavours! (After cream soda)
+Gergely Rajki There are several other companies that offer similar things! Try searching for Japanese snack subscription box, I bet you can find a company that will ship to Hungary! :D
Sharla:
*shows the candy out of focus*
- Do you see this gorgeous color and texture?
Me:
- nope
Jiminipple ARMY...!YAYY🎊
Hello Sharla :D!
I'm new to this Channel and started watching your videos to prepare for my Japan trip. I wrote down so many stores, cafes and restaurants and want to thank you for that :)!
I'm watching all of your videos since a few days you're so sympathetic :D.
Greetings from Germany ^--^
+Pandorya When are you coming to Japan?
+Pandorya Ahh I did the same when I went to japan ~ it was so helpful! have fun ＾＾
dich findet man ja überall Pan :D
hey :D ich geh dieses Jahr auch nach japan. :D wann geht's bei dir los? wohin geht es für dich?
+Pandorya Hetalia confirmed
I think the last one are not made from gelatin, but kanten(寒天). Kanten is harder than gelatin, and made from seaweed！It is japanese traditional food. Also, it is really healthy too😉
yup you are exactly right!
Most of the sweets I can get at my local asian supermarket lack sweetness or have no sweetness at all. i don't know if they just don't put sugar in their sweets or the export products contain to much food preservers. Mochi cakes are only chewy here and have no taste what so ever.
Sweet buns or fried sesam balls with red bean paste we can get at japanese restaurants are sweet though.
I'm obsessed with Japanese sweets!
+Strawberry Mochi It's bad right!!! I could live off of these things D;
I'm literally addicted to red bean paste..lol and eating it with green tea makes you feel so relaxed for some reason. I think because it's not so heavy compared to other types of sweets.
+Strawberry Mochi It's interesting, I like red bean buns and usually the paste is ver sweet and rich when I get it but a few months ago I got one in a local China Town bakery and it was not sweet at all, plus the paste wasn't mashed all the way I guess, it had full bean shapes in it. I will not go to that place again.
Phil Nolan I usually prefer my bean paste to be smooth and not too sweet. One time tried buying these store bought, frozen red bean bun and it was awful cause the bean paste was too gritty and sugary.
和菓子は、柿の甘さを超えてはならないと言う原則があるんですが、亀十を含め、最近の和菓子は甘さを抑え過ぎているように思います。和菓子、懐石料理もなんですが、お茶を美味しく頂くための物だったんで、あまり甘さを抑えてしまうのは如何な物かと思うわけです。
亀十の味は時代に合わせて変わりましたが、昔からの味を守っている店もまだまだ残っていますので、是非食べてみてくださいね。
makoto simizu 最近はお茶とセットで食べずに単品で食べることも多いからではないでしょうか？？
しかしながら、私は甘さ控えめの和菓子で抹茶頂くの好きですよ
3年も前のコメントにすみません
Another great thing about many wagashi, is that many are traditionally low on fructose since they're sweetened by mizuame instead of sugar, which is pretty much pure glucose, though because of that the sweetness is much milder. So it's healthy and delicious.
I love watching yours & Rachel's channels because it just prepares me for not only my japan trip, but learning the language as well! thank you♡♡
シャーラさんも字幕の林さんもいつもありがとうございます。
シャーラさんの着物姿がすごく綺麗！
自分も和菓子が大好きなので今回の特集もとても幸せな気分になりました。
Had a get together with friends tonight and took monaka. It was great, thanks for the food tips! I really enjoy your posts, you give me good ideas of places to visit and food to try!
+ Sharla in Japan i took place in a tea ceremony while i was in Japan and they had two sweats one was white and one was green and they were like soft chewy biscuits, but they were so good and they were sweet just not in a sugary scence..
I tried bean paste for the first time in Japan and loved it it's very very different.
I love these videos where u show us cool traditional Japanese stuff! I definitely hope I can visit there some day
When I was growing up in Southern California we had a sister city in Japan, so from second grade on we learn Japanese in school every day. In fifth grade we had a traditional tea ceremony and we had these! I absolutely love red bean paste but now that I'm living in northern Michigan I haven't had any in 6 years! Portland Oregon has a Japanese tea Garden and they have these delicious wagashi as well
Ohhh . . these look so good, never been to Japan but have bought similar things in London in a shop called Minamoto Kitchoan and I absolutely loved it.
You look great in that Kimono and the background was beautiful too.
This was a really well filmed video!!! Thanks Sharla :)
Wow, that's a super beautiful place!
Nice video, thanks for sharing the local food and culture. The presentation of the sweets is quite unique =)
I sooo miss Wagashi like this!! ahhh!!
Oh my... Can I have them all? Haha! I think I would take the third one most! That butter layer sounds ideal! Yummy!
you looked amazing,your kimono and background were in sync with the video theme
I love watching you eat different because its so fun to watch you do the Sharla happy dance lol
*different things lol
Loving these old videos! So informative and you look so lively:)
I love dorayaki! In a Japanese tea shop in Vienna, they even sell them with different fillings like chocolate cream or cheese cake, which is super delicious :)
I literally ran to the nearest お菓子屋 and bought tons of different dorayakis after I watched this!! God, they're s delicious. Thanks for the video Sharla!
If you`re ever in Kyoto, don`t forget to try some yatsuhashi. They`re cinnamon cookies.
The RUclips Space you filmed in is beautiful! It matches well with your pretty kimono!
和菓子を紹介してくれてありがとうございます♥
Thank you😍
Great video! Love seeing the different wagashi and seeing you present them wearing a nice kimono really gives it a Japanese feel. Hope you make more videos like this.
LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! YOU`RE SUCH A SWEET SHARLA! A few years ago, my dad brought me lots of japanese sweets, there was a cute box decorated with chicks and the candies were little chick-shaped treats which tasted sweet and bready-like. Also brought kind of mochi paste fold in triangles and filled with red bean paste. Hope you can find them, they were simply amazing!! Greetings from Mexico!
+icevalkyrie Ahh I've had both of those, I know exactly what you're talking about!!! :D I love those chick sweets!!
"Kin-gyoku(錦玉)" is made by dissolving the agar.
So it's harder than jelly.
It also called an alias "Kohaku(琥珀:amber)".
You can make a surprisingly easy.
錦玉は寒天から作られます。
だからゼリーよりかたいんです。
別名琥珀とも呼ばれています。
寒天を溶かして砂糖と果物を入れて冷やして固めればいいので意外と簡単に作れますよ！
that kimono is so pretty, I have one in a similar pattern except instead of red its a bright cobalt blue. i'm planning a trip to Japan next November and I can't wait to try these sweets. I hope I can participate in a tea ceremony as well, I've been obsessed with them for years.
That kimono is so pretty Sharla! ; w; It really suits you!
I love わがし also! I'll be arriving in Tokyo next week so I will definitely have to stop by the shop you recommended to pick up some 'sweet' souvenirs for my family back home!
everything looked jummy, can't wait to try them
和菓子食べたくなったー！！
I absolutely love red bean paste! I haven't tried white bean paste before - totally going for it.
Looks very yummy! My favorite Japanese sweets are Kansai style sakura mochi and ohagi with kinako on surface and red bean paste inside.
It's amazing how you actually look younger now than you did in this video sharla!
It's good to hear about some more unusual Japanese sweets that you don't see so often in the UK. I know what you mean about Japanese sweets being less sweet - Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Dr Pepper in Japan aren't as sweet as in the UK.
Oreo cookies too!
Sharla in Japan you look very pretty with the red kimono（＾ｖ＾）I always wanted to try wagashi and I didn't know there was so many different ones. Now I know the jelly one which I see a lot in popular sweets are kingyoku. I really want to try one nowxD
I love how you went all out & thought about the setting & your traditional kimono (I am not much a fan of red, but I love the extra thought & effort in the setting ;-) You go girl! )
I just searched Nerikiri and there was one shaped and decorated like a crystal!!
Deffs gonna try one (one of these days) Awesome video (as usual) :)
Sharla you make everything look and sound so yummy! You should be a Japanese food show host, bc you always make me hungry. You're the best!
great video you looked amazing! I love learning about the food in japan. I would definitely have to try the pancake one
Awesome vid Sharla!! I'm gonna try all of them! Looked so good
I was there today, and got so many snacks. I had NO idea what anything was, so I really appreciate this video. They all look amazing though. The rain was so horrible, but I still enjoyed my time there.
I wanted to go to the amusement park and the skytree so bad, but cies la vie. I am determined to come back soon. Me and Mt Fuji have a date. :) P.S. Your videos, as well as Rachel and Jun, and Abroad in Japan, helped me a great deal with researching my trip - hoping for the rain to go away so that I can enjoy my last few hours. :)
Thanks,
Nik
hey sharla. I really like your videos. I am from jamaica and I am obsessed with japan. I hope to come and teach english there someday. I have already started learning japanese and I just love all of your japan videos. especially the food ones because they all look so fascinating and I have never tried any of those things before. the only things that I have ever gotten was dango and natto. I didnt really like them but I want to try wagashi and onigiri and okonomiyaki the most!
You look very pretty in this traditionnal outfit ! And these wagashi seem delicious !! Great vid
I'm Japanese but I prefer Western confectionery to Japanese one .
So I don't like bean paste ~_~;
Bean paste is included in almost all of the Japanese confectionery 😢
if I must choose, i wanna eat Oshiruko which is sold by vending machine in winter 😋
My ex is Japanese and like you, and me lol, he doesn't like bean paste. So he told me he would miss out on a lot of sweets.
The jelly is likely made with agar agar. It's a vegan sea kelp based alternative to gelatin, which comes from boiling animal bones to mix the proteins with the liquid. It's more firm than gelatin and seems to hold its shape better
the soft mochi is so beautiful and mochi is my favorite desert !!!♡♡♡♡
I really want to learn to make wagashi, they always look so fancy!
I had heard of a few of the wagashi you demonstrated in this video but have not had chance to ever try any 😞 I am definitely looking forward to trying wagashi as it will be a nice change from the really sugary, sweet and almost sickly sweets we get here in the UK. That and I am in love with red bean paste though it is difficult to come across here; when I do find it, I totally stock up! (thank you local, independent stores 😉)The kimono really suited you as well 😃 haha. What was it like shooting in the RUclips space? I hear they are ridiculously well equipped? 😃 thank you for sharing this with us!Chris
I found your channel the other day and I just cannot stop watching you! I am also super jealous of this video. It is insanely hard to find Wagashi and Dango in my area (NC). I'm placing an order soon with a company I found online but shipping is $50! Oh well I guess, gotta pay to play...or just to stuff my face with deliciousness! My boyfriend and I are actually very interested in the Japanese culture, him with cars & me with the food & just everything else! We talked about going to Japan as a vacation one day but then thought it would be even better just to get married there(in the far future) lol . I clearly went off topic...but anyways! I love your videos and I cannot wait to experience what you get to everyday. Love from America!!!
Ugh I LOVE your videos! I can get my dose of Japan whilst I dream about living there one day!
I love red bean paste, but i'm on the edge about how i feel about white bean paste.
First of all, you look so stunning, and second of all, I got SOOO hungry watching this!! Those sweets look so beautiful and delicious ; ; I want to try everything someday
This was very pleasant to watch. Thanks
i love the kimono!!
I love making homemade mitarashi dango. It's so yummy 😋
i really want to try some but i live in the uk :( anyone know a website where i could order some??
+chaver28
There is Minamoto Kicchoan in front of Fortnum & Mason of London. They are famous Wagashi parlor in Japan.
Kitty George do they have a website i could order from?? cuz i live miles away from london
Have you google japanese shops around you? I live in Alabama, USA and we have one so I feel like London would too.
+buh guh oh wait, I just read you don't live near London. :/
+buh guh could ship from London to her? So you advice still stands as a good one.
Everything looks so cute!
OMG! I'm drooling here! I'm going to have to make do with chocolate from the fridge, sigh. I loooooove red bean paste!
Oh god thank you!!! I finally know where I'll find japanese sweet for my familly !!!! I've been looking for ages XD
I've eaten all sorts of Japanese wagashi since coming to Japan, but they are never sweet enough. There is a temple near me famous for Umegae Mochi. I have had that twice, and both times I thought it was more like a potato chip with no sweetness at all. I've also had zenzai and dorayaki with shiro-an, but neither one of those is quite sweet enough for me. I've had plenty of wagashi, but I prefer candy from America.
However, the best wagashi I ever had was from Kumamoto. It was a cookie with a kabosu filling. OMG that was so good! It was sold as omiyage, but I ate it all myself. haha I wish I had more! Even if you came to Kyushu, I doubt you'd end up in Kumamoto. But, if you ever do, make sure to get some kabosu cookies!
Edit: I have been told that the cookie from Kumamoto is not wagashi, as it is not a traditional sweet. It is just a popular omiyage. So, I'll stick with my previous "wagashi is just not sweet enough to be good" attitude. :p
Traditionally and fundamentally, wagashi trys not to exceed persimmon or dried fruits' sweetness.
If you like strong flavor I recommend noshi-ume or kuri-kanoko! Mitsumane always represented the sweetest desert for when girls need to stress eat, in manga, of stories about old Edo to Meiji era.
I really wish I could get into red-bean sweets. Sometimes it takes a few tastes to actually love foods, in my case. But the red bean pastries I've had so far are painfully sweet! I tried the red bean/ice cream thing as well, which wasn't *too* bad, but... I can't pretend to like it. xD I had a mini party with all of my friends from Japan and they jokingly told me that if I said I didn't like red beans, I'd get instantly kicked off of the plane! Lol.
Mochi treats! Mmmm~ I love mochi! It's so amazing. But it is hard to describe unless some one else has had it. I love that one of the local conveyor belt sushi places serves Mochi icecream.
I have to get a red kimono... it looks so cool.
6:00 That was a very professional looking spokesmodel hand motion right there.
Nerikiri is my favourite too, so excited to have them again when I'm back in Japan :D I love it when they make the momiji ones, so pretty~
着物がこんなに似合うとは思ってもいませんでした。とても素敵です＾＾
私の行くマザー牧場の中のお寺、仏母寺（ぶつぼじ）は、いつでも和菓子を出していただいて、挽きたての抹茶と一緒に食します、香の香りの中、ひじょうに落ち着き最後に緑茶でしめます。和菓子は職人さん達の真心が感じられます。
such a great video! So interesting and I learned a lot!
And girl, you look gorgeous!
Hello,nice to meet you!
When eating a 和菓子, a used Japanese pick isn't a 爪楊枝（tsumayouji）. It's called a 黒文字（kuromoji） by one of the kinds of 楊枝（pick）.
Can you do a video of people making wagashi ? Im really happy for you , Eating those makes you really happy !
Great video Sharna! When in Asakusa, our favorite treat was age-manju from Nakemise
I would recommend Daifuku, it's so yummy and very easy to find. In Tokyo usually there's small traditional Wagashi shops in each town (station) so I would recommend to get one of those there. But ones you can get convini is fine too. And definitely try Manju too! Very easy to find as well.
Of course I read the description box! Because I'm always hoping you'll make a snapchat😂
But honestly, another great video. You're so amazing, Sharla. Your videos make me so happy. Thank you so much for everything you do. I know it must be hard to balance RUclips, a job, and having a life. But thank you for every video you make.💕💫
+Emily Morales Haha aww~ everyone keeps telling me that snapchat is really fun but I'm so busy trying to keep up all the things I have going already!! Maybe if I decide to drop facebook or something, I will replace it with snapchat ^^
Another really good sweet in Japan is mochi with the sweet bean paste inside, which I'm sure you're already familiar with. What's even tastier than though is the vanilla mochi ice cream.
I loooove Japanese culinary arts the best sweets.
These all look so yummy 😍
This was my first time watching you.btw love your vids!!!!!!🤗
love this video!!
all those wagashi look sooooo good
There is a nice wagashi-ya 5 minutes walk from where I live and they do really good wagashi. I like their ichigo daifuku and their dorayaki (they do different flavours). The last time I have been there, since it was really hot outside, they were offering cold tea and a little wagashi to go with it! It is a really nice place!
i beat the tweet wow, that kimono looks so really pretty!!! I've only ever had wagashi and I loved it their so good. great video, and now I have more food to try!!! xD
+tristan15ish They're so yummy aren't they!? This video is making me want to go out and get some right now XD;
着物がとってもにあっていてきれいですね。私はお団子、とくによもぎ団子とみたらしだんごが好きなんです。着物で食べるには色気のないものですが、普段よく食べる和菓子です。
Recently, I had a chance to try to promote a Japanese Traditional Sweets Shop to people from foreign countries.. Wondering if somebody already have introduced Japanese Traditional Sweets, I reached your channel. This is nice & cool! Thanks a lot.
Love your background and outfit! Beautiful!
+Dark Enigma Thank youuu!! Isn't the background awesome!? It's a set at the RUclips space :D Wish my house looked like this, haha
You look so excited when you make food videos haha
Manju and yoku are amazing
I've never been to Japan but I have tried a red bean paste filled sweet (brought back from Japan for me) and the bean paste tastes similar to dates so if you like dates you will like bean paste
I love Wagashi, when I went to Japan last year I didn't get much time to try them, so now I will look out for them in Asakusa!
We have a really nice Wagashi shop in London; Minamoto Kitchoan and they do a Wagashi called Okashigure and it just melts in your mouth, delicious! I love having them with green tea :)
Very cool video... I don't like super sweet things, so I have a feeling I would like a lot of these.
It all looks so yummy! たべたい〜
いつも日本の様々な文化を紹介して下さり、ありがとうございます。どら焼きに牛乳も合いますよ。
these sounds so perfect for me... i love sweets, but i don't like food that is too sweet, and most sweets are too sweet for me. i will have to try these one day.
please make another video like this, I love it!
I've never seen Kingyoku, but it looks amazing! I will have to buy some the next time I can.
My favourite wagashi though is Dorayaki with a azuki filling and also Daifuku. Yeah I love the red bean paste haha
I can only get dorayaki twice a year at a local anime/comic convention and I always end up pigging out on it cause its so good.