Ebisu Mameen is a Japanese sweets shop located about a 5-minute walk from Ebisu Station in Tokyo. Kintsuba made from carefully selected ingredients is a popular shop.
The showcase is lined with kintsuba with various flavors, from standard to slightly unusual. I bought 4 kinds of "black soybeans", "matcha", "chocolate" and "mint". The price is 378 yen (tax included) per piece.
It's palm-sized, but it has a lot of weight.
Black bean
Kintsuba made from plumply cooked red beans from Tokachi, Hokkaido and large black beans from Tanba. It is a representative confectionery of the bean garden.
There is a lot of sauce in the fragrant thin skin. Flavorful red beans and moist and glossy black beans fill your mouth with happiness. It has a very mellow sweetness because it uses sugar cane-based "bare sugar" and unadjusted soymilk.
If you warm it a little in the microwave, the skin will be firm and the bean paste will be fluffy. If you want to enjoy the fragrance even more, try grilling it with a toaster. The deliciousness will be improved with a single effort.
Matcha
Kintsuba made by kneading freshly ground matcha into the skin and baking it. There is black soybean paste in the bean paste.
Not to mention the compatibility of matcha and azuki beans. A delicate taste with a hint of astringency and sweetness. Goro and large black beans enhance the Japanese flavor.
The scent of matcha is luxurious
Chocolat
Kintsuba with red bean paste and cocoa powder. Contains finely crushed almonds.
A mix of Japanese and Western
An amazing match with cocoa. The fragrant cocoa gently wraps the flavor of azuki beans. Crispy almonds are a nice accent. It seems to go well with coffee as well as Japanese tea.
mint
A mint flavor that is rare in Japanese sweets. When you open the individual wrapping, the refreshing scent tickles your nasal cavity.
Mint's claim is stronger than I imagined. A refreshing feeling spreads, and the sweetness of azuki beans gradually chases afterwards. A new taste that combines mellow bean paste and refreshing mint. "Azuki mint" that is not chocolate mint is also an ant!
This also contains almonds
In addition to the ones introduced, we also have a lineup of flavors such as royal milk tea and caramel (may change depending on the season). If you have a strange Kintsuba, please give it a try.