Umami no Mi Gyokuro is ready proper exterior the Shinkansen gate at Kyoto Station.
Half the enjoyable of touring in Japan is making an attempt out particular native meals, and half the enjoyable of native meals is native snacks. And if you happen to’re in Kyoto, you’ll in all probability really feel like half the native snacks are matcha inexperienced tea sweets.
To be clear, that is not a criticism. Kyoto grows a few of the finest matcha in Japan, and matcha has confirmed itself to be a really tasty dessert taste. So once we had been passing by way of Kyoto Station just lately and stumbled throughout Buburu, a store run by Kyoto tea service provider and confectioner Gion Tsujiri, we figured it’d be an excellent place to select up some matcha sweets to take residence as souvenirs.
▼ Buburu
And yeah, Buburu has loads of matcha sweets, however we ended up selecting one thing very completely different, Umami no Mi Gyokuro. Umami no Mi interprets loosely to “seed of deliciousness,” and gyokuro is an particularly prized number of matcha wherein the tea leaves are grown within the shade, giving them a richer taste and deeper shade than bizarre inexperienced tea.
After eradicating the container’s high there’s a secondary paper lid with a round opening beneath, as a way to pour out the Umami no Mi one by one if you’d like. Even earlier than we’d shaken out a single piece, although, we may get pleasure from an enticingly robust matcha aroma rising up by way of the outlet.
At a look, Umami no Mi Gyokuro would possibly appear to be little inexperienced tea cookies, however their taste isn’t candy in any respect, as a result of these are literally made with kombu (dried kelp)!
Due to that, the primary sensation you get is a sea-sharp salty taste. After that the matcha notes begin to make their presence felt, and although the result’s a mixture of two robust flavors, neither one overpowers the opposite or saturates your style buds. Umami no Mi additionally has a denser texture than the crumbly airiness we’d been anticipating from their look, making for a really satisfying snack. As an added bonus, the truth that Umami no Mi Gyokuro is primarily produced from kombu and matcha means it’s a low-calorie snack too, with the whole depend for the entire container being simply 50 energy.
Add all of it up, and Umami no Mi Gyokuro is a pleasant different to all of the matcha sweets that Kyoto presents, an excellent memento decide for anybody whose snack tastes run extra in the direction of salty than candy. It’s priced at 799 yen (US$5.70) and with Buburu being situated simply exterior Kyoto Station’s Shinkanen Central Gate, it’s straightforward to select up a pack as quickly as you arrive on the town or simply earlier than you allow, relying in your snacking ambitions.
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