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Japanese Themed ๐ŸŽ„Market๐ŸŽ„ in North London

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How time flies! I feel like it was just a month ago that I mentioned Sakura Junction had a successful stall in the Christmas Market in 2015. Now it is the time again that we are going to have a stall for introducing our sweets to public.

2016-xmas-japanese-food-market

The ๐ŸŽ„Christmas Market๐ŸŽ„ is actually TOMORROW!!

These are some of the range that I am going to take for the market.

On top of the various Japanese sweets we are going to serve ‘Chicken Kara-age (Japanese Fried Chiken)’ this year.

fry

There are Sushi and some other food as well. You can have nice Japanese lunch or Tea with my sweet there.

The venue is in North London. If you live near by or even from different part of London please pop in to see me. I have been working very hard to prepare for this occasion so will be very happy if you come to say ‘Hi’ in person๐Ÿ’“

The Market is open only for 4 hours! So don’t miss it!ย  See you there.

Yaki Manju (็„ผใใพใ‚“ใ˜ใ‚…ใ†) – Baked Manju

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There is a recipe of ‘Yaki-Mnju (็„ผใใพใ‚“ใ˜ใ‚…ใ†) / Baked Manju’ I normally use. That is a Japanese Sweet wrapped with biscuit. It is good. I like it. It is also something that Western people are quite familiar with.

We have a Japanese sweet called ‘Kuri-Manju (ๆ —ใพใ‚“ใ˜ใ‚…ใ†)’.ย That is a ‘Yaki-Manju’ with Chestnut ‘Kuri‘ pieces inside and made into a Chestnut shape. The skin of this sweet is slightly different from Western biscuit. It is much smoother and you can make it into some shapes.

This time I made ‘Yaki-Manju’ in the traditional way. I tried making some shapes with different filling.

‘Kuri-Manju (ๆ —ใพใ‚“ใ˜ใ‚…ใ†)’

This one is ‘Kuri-Manju‘ with Chestnuts ‘Kuri’.

Yaki kuri manju

Does it look like Chestnut to you?

Yaki kuri manju cut

Instead of using small pieces, I mixed Chestnut in syrup mixing with ‘Shiro-An (็™ฝใ‚ใ‚“)’ and that made the filling looks like a paste.

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