What Halloween treats may very well be sweeter than these?
Odds are whenever you consider Totoro, you consider summer time. In any case, that’s the season by which the vast majority of the movie takes place, permitting for all these outside adventures set beneath skies of cumulonimbus clouds plus the long-lasting bus cease scene coinciding with a sudden squall.
However at Shirohige’s Cream Puff Manufacturing unit, Totoro is a presence all yr lengthy, for the reason that two-shop Tokyo sweets chain serves up Studio Ghibli anime-themed treats in every season. Their hottest merchandise is their Totoro-shaped cream puffs, however now October is right here, there’s a Halloween Totoro dessert on the way in which!
In Japan, a variety of confectioners take Halloween as a chance to create pumpkin sweets, and that’s what we’re getting with the Totoro’s Pumpkin Purin, which sits a Totoro cream puff and Jack-o’-lantern cookie inside a mug of purin (Japanese-style custard pudding). As is usually the case with Japanese “pumpkin” sweets, the flavour right here is definitely kabocha, a green-skinned pumpkin-like squash {that a} bit sweeter than an everyday pumpkin, with the Totoro’s Pumpkin Purin being made with kabocha grown in Hokkaido Prefecture.
▼ Kabocha
Then again, Shirohige’s Cream Puff Manufacturing unit’s different particular Halloween deal with sources its key ingredient from all the way in which on the opposite aspect of Japan, Okinawa. That’s the place Shirohige’s Cream Puff Manufacturing unit will get the candy potatoes for its Spirited Away-inspired Otori-sama’s Beni-imo Candy Potato Purin.
Right here we now have a candy potato confectionary formed like yellow bathing chook Otori-sama full with a towel atop his head within the method customary for bathhouse patrons in Japan. His “tub” here’s a pool of candy potato pudding, and like with Totoro, Oroti-sama is accompanied by a Jack-o’-lantern cookie.
Every Halloween pudding is priced at 2,500 yen (US$17.85), which could sound fairly steep till you take into consideration that that features the adorably illustrated mugs they’re served in, that are yours to maintain and use as espresso cups or refill with different puddings. Each the Totoro’s Pumpkin Purin and Otori-sama’s Beni-imo Candy Potato Purin will solely be out there from October 26 to 31 (excluding the twenty ninth, when the store is closed) and in restricted portions, so Shirohige’s Cream Puff Manufacturing unit recommends placing in a reservation quickly when you’re eager to strive them.
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