I don’t know why, but sometimes I have a craving for something sweet late at night.
Even though I’m sure I’ve already eaten dinner. It’s not that I’m hungry,
Sometimes I feel like eating very sweet food.
(We all feel like this sometimes, don’t we?).

In Tokyo, you can find a variety of desserts at convenience stores.
You may know a lot of information about “good places to eat,” but do you know about taiyaki?

For those of you who don’t know what it is, let me introduce it to you.
A taiyaki is a Japanese snack shaped like a fish bream.

It is a food baked from a dough made of flour and water and filled with bean paste or other ingredients.
Nowadays, you can enjoy the difference with various ingredients such as custard, green tea, etc. depending on the store.

How can I explain it in a foreign country…?
It is like pouring pancake batter into a frying pan shaped like a fish….
(I wonder if this is well conveyed…)

This warm and sweet pastry baked in the shape of a fish is very tasty when eaten during the cold winter months.
I hope everyone who travels to Japan will try it when they are hungry while sightseeing.
I think it is a typical Japanese food!

As the temperature drops in Tokyo, it is now the season for warm taiyaki.
So today, I would like to introduce the taiyaki that I eat on a daily basis. Delicious taiyaki are not only sold in stores.
This is frozen taiyaki.
Even if you have traveled to Japan many times, you may not know this.

I don’t think a detailed explanation is necessary,
All you have to do is heat it up in the microwave for 40 seconds.
(This is a little off topic, but the time to heat up frozen foods is specified in 10-second increments, right?)

It says that it takes 40 seconds to heat one at 600w, or 2 minutes and 10 seconds to heat three at the same time. It also says to warm them without wrapping them.

The dough of taiyaki is not as crispy as that of the ones you buy at the store, They are tasty enough for less than 100 yen each.
When you want something sweet on a cold night, you can taste it in 40 seconds.
It is enough to satisfy me!

You can eat it easily but only one piece because you will gain weight.

If you are a traveler reading this blog and your accommodation has a microwave oven
Why don’t you try eating frozen foods? You may be able to have an experience closer to the daily life of Japanese people.

Of course, there are popular stores in Asakusa and Shinjuku, so it should be fun to do some research and buy and eat at the stores. It is especially interesting to see how taiyaki are made at taiyaki stores. You should be able to see many schools of sea breams!

Thanks again for reading my blog today.
Kimura