Looking for a sweet heart is pleased with
Mie prefecture which is the city of food blessed with rich ocean and mountains.
There are many fascinating sweets that make use of regionally rich materials as there are many world-proud food ingredients such as Ise shrimp, abalone, Matsusaka beef etc.
This time pick up 3 pieces of photogenic sweets that will casually enjoy the fascinating of such materials. Let's take a camera with one hand in search of Mie's unique sweet harmony which is a treasure trove of food.
———Overturn the concept of wheat flour! 「MuGicafe」 - shop that can taste Kuwana rice cake wheat
The first place I visited was "MuGicafe" 15 minutes on foot from Kuwana station.
Kuwana is located in the mouth of Kisosansen (Kiso river, Nagara river, Ibi river) poured into Ise Bay, it is a lodging town of the Tokaido fifty-three stations that used to connect Kyo from Edo. It is a city prospered as a gateway to the Ise.
The menu you can taste at MuGicafe is a menu using "Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat" cultivated in Kuwana.
Rice Cake Wheat is a new varieties that Japan created in 1995 as a pioneer in the world, it is rich in flavor and stickiness with starchy character.
This sweet made use of its characteristics.
"Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat pancake" baked plumply.
I imagined a pale fabric like souffle from the appearance, but in my mouth, I am surprised by the elastic texture like rice cake.
Resilient fabric. The bitter flavor of the flour spreads as you chew.
Melanque produced by fresh cream and Kuwana honey "Kuwana Honey" also adds a distinctive texture.
This is a new texture overturning the concept of wheat flour.
"There is" Rice Cake Wheat "in flour as there is" glutinous rice "in rice."
That's what I taught is Mr. Yoshihiko Yasuda who owns MuGicafe and runs "Sozaiya" that sell ingredients such as wheat flour. He is the founder of "Kuwana Rice Cake Project" to spread Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat.
———Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat Project
2008. Mr. Yasuda, who had been selling ingredients, was shocked by the unique texture of Rice Cake Wheat, who met through the mills in Tsu, while seeking the significance of wholesale existence.
Three people who raised in Kuwana city Rice Cake Wheat which had not been cultivated already in Tsu City and eventually wanted to make Kuwana that can be raised awareness through Rice Cake Wheat was Mr. Yasuda, a rice farmer and bread seller and the project was the Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat project.
Then the test cultivation of Rice Cake Wheat began the following year. Hiroyuki Itoh, who is a rice farmer and produces Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat, who was present at the interview, looks back then.
Itoh：I have never made wheat and started from changing rice fields into fields.
Wheat is a crop suitable for dry weather, so it is not well suited to the climate of humid Japan. Compared to rice cultivation that requires waterways, the production of wheat production that can be cultivated regardless of location has been on an increasing trend in recent years, and the demand for domestically produced wheat with taste that matches security and environmental and climate has also increased.
Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat As a project, too many people can be involved in flour changing to various foods like bread and cake, so feeling the possibility of being popularized as a famous product of Kuwana, repeated trial and error. It was in 2014 that Yasuda opened "MuGiCafe" as an antenna shop.
Right now Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat is spreading in the metropolitan area through a craft bakery as a reputation for a distinctive new texture.
I'd like to taste the feeling of mouthfeel texture of inevitable ineffability.
■As a visit souvenir...
Kuwana Rice Cake Wheat's "wheat straw". Enjoy environmentally friendly nostalgic taste.
■Nearby attractions「Shichirinowatashi」
Kuwana was showing busy as a lodging town of Tokaido once. The Otorii living in Shichirinowatashi is said to be the gateway to Ise Road and is called "Ise’s number one torii".
———The King of One Handed Sweets! Ise tea taste crisp crepe "KILLIBILLI"
The 2nd shop to introduce is 3 minutes on foot from Ise city station.
Popular CREPE, CAFE & BAR "KILLIBILLI" where you can eat authentic crepes.
In 2015, the first store in Toba was born by the owner who runs a long-established pub "Toba Kyubey". Ise store opened as the second store in 2017.
KILLIBILLI means “the point of good fishing” by the word of Aborigines in Australia. The owner who had experience living in Australia thought about the environment with Toba which is the city of the sea and named it.
Crape and drink menu with local ingredients tailored to the season line up, this time I selected Ise shop limited crepe "Ise tea Mont Blanc".
For crepe dough use Nansei eggs in southern Ise city and Aya Hikari flour from Mie Prefecture. It seems to be made the crepe with a texture that is motivated by using Aya Hikari.
When flavored salt-butter is painted in, scenty fragrance spreads in the store.
"The surface has continued pursuing a crispy texture in the inside while it is extremely refreshing that it is extremely delicious." Mr. Masatoshi Nagikawa, shop owner, speaks with a smile.
Place plenty of cream made of Ise tea at Kinoshita tea room a well-established tea house in Ise, finish with Ise tea powder.
The finished "Ise tea Mont Blanc" is here.
A rich Ise tea cream is exquisite with a little salty crispy dough.
The compatibility of bean paste with rice flour dumplings is also good.
The finished Ise tea powder makes it a pleasant taste not only for flavor but also for bitterweight indispensable for the original flavor of Ise tea.
One-handed sweets perfect for accompanying Ise walk.
■As a visit souvenir...
「Ise cotton accessories」
Ice cotton earrings made by local creators.
■Nearby attractions「Ise Jingu」
It has a history of 2,000 years, a shrine consisting of 125 shrines including the Naiku and the Geku.
———A fascinating sweet made by traditional manufacturing method "Ueda shop"
Shima-shi, Ago-cho, I visited the third store.
Kinko potato studio "Ueda shop" founded in 1974 in the Anori district where fishing industry is thriving.
Kinko potato is the name of dried potato. Dried sweet potatoes are made in the Shima district by the traditional recipe called boiled shredding recipe and have long been popular as sea ladies and household snacks since long ago. Ueda Shop is a potato farmer who sticks to raw material potatoes and cultivates it.
The soil containing plenty of minerals surrounded by the sea raises high quality sweet potatoes, and the sunny cold wind blows frequently in the Anori district is also suitable for sun drying which brings out sweetness. The former generation has stepped up mass production with the desire to distribute the Kinko potato which is said to be exceptional, even outside the area.
Currently, her daughter Mai Tachibana who runs Ueda shop together with the second generation tell us.
Tachibana: It is very difficult to mass-produce while maintaining the quality of Kinko potato with high moisture content, in the climate of Shima which is warm in high humidity, it took about 6 years to produce its own recipe.
The sweet with the finest potato is this "potato syrup soft".
The potato syrup is a rare syrup that can be produced in the course of production of Kinko potato made by boiling sweet potatoes for over 10 hours. No sugar or sweetener is used, so potato syrup which can be taken from about 100 sweet potatoes is only 250 ml.
The soft cream with plenty of its potato syrup is rich and it has a deep flavor with a synergistic effect of milk and sweet potato. It is also fun to contrast the texture of the chocolate coating and the chips.
Here is "Potato Syrup Mousse Pudding".
You can enjoy sweet potato sweetness with Kinko potatoes on a creamy pudding of potato syrup.
This is a dish that makes you feel breathless and relaxed.
■As a visit souvenir...
"Naminori Mamori" of Anori Shrine at Anori Cape
Amulet prayed for surfing and fishery, also in life "to be able to get on good waves".
■Nearby attractions「Anorisaki Lighthouse」
Unusual quadrangular lighthouse, also chosen as "50 Lighthouse in Japan".
A photogenic sweet that stimulates the senses and brings joy of bliss.
It is a masterpiece of a gem full of attractiveness of the material.
On the way home, looking back at the picture which pushed the shutter unintentionally, the feeling of well-being impregnated with the whole body revitalized with the hot feeling of the maker who met on this day.
（Coverage Date : November 22th, 27th 2018）
Planning and Editing：Living and Traveling in Mie WEB Magazine OTONAMIE Operation Headquarters
Coverage：Miki Hukuda（Vice Representative of OTONAMIE）
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MuGicafe
42 Kyomachi, Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture
Tel 070-5335-9871
HP http://mugicafe.jp/
CREPE,CAFE&BAR KILLIBILLI Ise Shop
Sansan Bld 1st Floor, 6-34, 1 Hukiage, Ise City, Mie Prefecture
Tel 0596-68-9084
HP https://www.instagram.com/killibilliise/
Kinko Potato Studio Ueda Shop
1076-2 Anori, Ago Cho, Shima City, Mie Prefecture
Tel 0599-47-3517
HP http://kinkoimo.com/