Petite Yōkan Yoru no Ume : Night Plum
小形羊羹 夜の梅
£6.00 per item
A serving of yōkan made with smooth azuki paste combined with whole azuki beans.
This yōkan (a sweet confectionery with a smooth, gelled-paste consistency, typically made from azuki beans, sugar, and agar-agar) is prepared with a mixture of smooth and whole azuki beans.
The name of Yoru no Ume (lit. ‘plum at night’) refers to the aesthetics of the sliced whole azuki beans in the yōkan, which resemble white plum blossoms glimmering in the night.
Size : 7.9 x 2.8 x 2.0cm
Net Weight : 50 g
Ingredients: sugar, azuki beans, agar-agar
Kansai
The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka. Kyoto and Nara, two of Japan’s former capital cities, are home to important temples and shrines and strongholds of intangible cultural heritage, such as the Kyoto textile weaving skills of Nishijin.
