For example, people with tickets numbered 1 to 50 can claim their cakes as early as 09:00.
When you can claim your raindrop cake depends on the number of ticket you acquire. See also Ishigaki Island Vegetable Cafe Re:Hellow Beach Claiming Your Raindrop Cake By selling the raindrop cake, Kinseiken doesn’t profit alone, it helps revitalize the economy of surrounding areas. You can’t really get the raindrop cake without going deep into Yamanashi, so along the way, you get to enjoy the fleeting summer season, the lush nature of Yamanashi and the many other local delicacies in surrounding areas. You see, the product is not the cake alone but the whole experience. And this is where I think half the genius of this product lies. One may be lead to think, why travel all the way to a remote part of Japan for a dessert that tastes like water? Isn’t this just an overhyped fad? The raindrop cake is also only available on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays of the summer months, usually from June to September. to get a numbered ticket and come back again around noon to avail of the dessert. Visitors from all over Japan line up as early as 8 a.m. See also Autumn in Tokyo: 26 Fall Foliage Spots to See in 2022īecause of this, the raindrop cake can only be eaten on site. Everything is calibrated carefully so that the resulting product is at its best taste and form. When I was there, I was told that if they so as much bump the tray holding the raindrop cakes, the batch will be scrapped because the additional air that the contact produced will not result in the perfect shape. Their idea: edible water, and by “edible” they don’t mean “potable,” but rather “water you can eat.” To achieve this, they made several attempts to perfect the process-from the ratio of ingredients to how they are mixed, to the exact temperature they must be kept in.
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Once the staff of Kinseiken identified their key ingredient, they thought of how to leverage it best. The whole concept of the raindrop cake revolves around turning one of Hokuto’s best assets into a dessert that people from around the country would come to get a taste of, and that best asset happens to be clean water from the Japanese Alps. Quite frankly, like water-clean, fresh mineral water that is. See also Tofu no Higa: Have Yushi-Dofu for Breakfast in Ishigaki What does a raindrop cake taste like? The ingenuity and dedication that the workers at the shop displayed left me with such an impact that it would be a shame not to recount and share the experience. Through it, I was able to talk to the staff who prepare these cakes as well as witness first-hand the hard work that goes with it. This aesthetically pleasing and refreshing treat was one of the things featured in an episode of NHK’s Cool Japan, an episode that I happened to participate in and enjoyed immensely. By then it was only a matter of time until the rest of the world discovered the delicious treat, and when it eventually did, the English-speaking part of the world dubbed it the “raindrop cake.” Located in Yamanashi Prefecture, the shop Kinseiken had the ambitious idea of serving “water you can eat.” After numerous attempts the previous year, they have finally perfected the formula for their newest offering, which they called mizu shingen mochi. In 2014, a novel dessert was first introduced to the Japanese market.
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