"Tirol Choco [Ito Kyuemon Strawberry Matcha Parfait]", a collaboration between Tyrolean Choco and Ito Kyuemon of Uji, Kyoto, will be released on March 19th only at 7-ELEVEN stores nationwide (excluding some stores). .. The price is 42 yen (excluding tax). Sales will end as soon as there are no more products.

"Tirol Choco [Ito Kyuemon Strawberry Matcha Parfait]" is the first collaboration between Tyrolean Choco and Ito Kyuemon. The seasonal menu "Strawberry Matcha Parfait", which can only be eaten in Uji and Gion in Kyoto, is reproduced in Tyrolean chocolate. Matcha chocolate with fresh cream flavored chocolate, grainy gummy, red bean flavored chocolate, fiantine, dried strawberry, and strawberry chocolate. It is finished so that you can feel the sweet and sour strawberries and the fragrant Uji matcha.

What is Itohkyuemon?

A teahouse founded in the third year of Tenpo in the late Edo period. The first Ito Tsuneemon and Takizo were involved in the tea industry in Namura, Tahara Village (currently Ujitawara Minami). After that, he inherited tea making from generation to generation with the second generation Ito Tsuneemon / Kusaburo, the third generation Ito Tsuneemon / Yumatsu, and the fourth generation Ito Takichi. The fifth generation, Kyuzo Ito, moved from Ujitawara to the land of Uji and set up a store selling Uji tea at Uji Renka (currently Omotesando, Eijiin). In Ujitawara, where the company was founded, tea production is still ongoing at the tea plantations that have been passed down to the Ito family for generations.