You can get roasted green tea and matcha sweets at a convenience store?! Check out 7- Eleven’s “Wa sweets fair”!
As Japan celebrates “Wagashi Day” on Saturday 16th June, 20,385 7-Eleven convenience stores will be holding a sweets fair from 5th June called “Wa Sweets Fair”. (It is currently the end of May 2018)
At this fair, there will be a range of six sweets that fuse Japanese ingredients such as black syrup, uji matcha and roasted houjicha green tea with western ideas. Enjoy the slightly fluffy texture of the popular choux pastry series “moko” filled with a fragrant black syrup and roasted soybean flour cream. This is called “Kuromitsu kinako moko”. There is also the melty-centred rice cake “Mochitoro” series where almond jelly-flavoured cream and strawberry sauce are combined to make a new flavour called “Mochi toro ichigo annin” (rice cake with a molten strawberry and almond core).
Molten core Uji Matcha Tiramisu
とろける宇治抹茶ティラミス
Price：￥230（price without tax）
This will be the first matcha tiramisu ever released by Seven Eleven. This uses Italian mascarpone for a rich, smooth tasting tiramisu that melts in the mouth, and a rich uji matcha for the mousse.
rice cake with a molten strawberry and almond core
Rice cake with a molten strawberry and almond core
もちとろ いちご杏仁
Price: ￥100（price without tax）
This is a western-style daifuku mochi; a rice cake filled with melt-in-the-mouth almond jelly. This is a fusion of almond jelly, which is popular in western confectionary, and a sweet and sour strawberry sauce. This is encased in lightly sweetened cream and then wrapped by a soft mochi rice cake.
Dorayaki pancake filled with soft choco mint cream
ドラソフトチョコミント
Price: ￥150（price without tax）
Layer by layer, dorayaki pancake batter is fried on a copper plate, creating a springy texture. The cocoa-flavoured dorayaki skin embraces a large filling of fresh flavoured chocolate mint cream.
Take some time out of your day to enjoy the traditional flavours of Japan through Seven Eleven’s diverse range of sweets.
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Black syrup and roasted soybean flour choux pastry (Kuromitsu kinako moko )
Release date: Tuesday 5th June (released subsequentially)
Chiba prefecture released date: Tuesday 12th June
Price: ￥130 (￥140 including tax )
Sold all over Japan (Excluding some areas of Hokkaido, the Kinki region and Tottori prefecture)
Molten core Uji Matcha Tiramisu (Torokeru uji matcha tiramisu)
Release date: Tuesday 12th June 4, 2018
Price: ￥230 (￥248 including tax )
Sold all over Japan
Dorayaki pancake filled with soft choco mint cream (Dora sofuto choco minto )
Release date: Tuesday 12th June 4, 2018
Price: ￥150 (￥162 including tax )
Sold All over Japan (Excluding some areas of Hokkaido, Hokuriku, Kinki, Toukai and Tottori)
Double cream Uji matcha milk pudding (Daburu kuri-mu no uji matcha miruku purin)
Release date: Tuesday 19th June 4, 2018
Price: ￥208 (￥224 including tax )
Available at all regions of Japan (Exluding some areas of Hokkado, Tohoku, Nagano, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Kinji Tottori)
Fluffy and creamy Warabi Uji matcha and Houji cha tiramisu (Fuwatoro warabi uji matcha and hoji cha)
Release date: Tuesday 19th June 4, 2018
Price: ￥110 (￥118 including tax )
Sold all over Japan except Hokkaido
Melt in the mouth mochi with strawberry and almond jam (Mochi toro ichigo annnin)
Release date: Tuesday 26th June
Price: ￥100 (￥108 including tax)
Sold all over Japan
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