The positive reaction to the sweet made Mr Sato think it would be great to purchase as a Tokyo souvenir. It went down a treat, with everyone in the office remarking on its visual impact before singing its praises for freshness and flavour. Popping it in his mouth, the dumpling was still a little on the cold side, having been served frozen for freshness, but that only added to his excitement.Īlas, like his youth, Mr Sato’s bottomless stomach is a thing of the past, so he invited the rest of the gang to come and help him demolish the dango sword.
The dango rice dumpling was bigger than the ones you usually get at stores around Japan, and Mr Sato’s eyes grew wide at its delicious plumpness.
This was an impressive lineup of flavours, and Mr Sato wanted to gleefully nibble them all, like a rabbit with a tasty carrot stick, but he decided to be a sensible adult, peeling away just the one at the top - the mitarashi, which consists of a sweet soy sauce glaze.
Kinako an (roasted soybean flour paste). Yame matcha (a famous matcha from Fukuoka). The 25 flavours in the Hana Yori Dango are listed below: No two dango looked the same, as each one was topped with a different paste. Resisting the urge to wield it about the room like a samurai sword, or perhaps a colourful lightsaber, Mr Sato carefully unwrapped the plastic to gaze upon the dango lineup. ▼ Like the tastiest samurai sword you’ve ever seen. Raising it like a trophy, Mr Sato couldn’t believe how long it was - at over a metre (39 inches) long, it was more than half his height! Mr Sato took the treat back to the office to share with his colleagues, but before they could tuck into it they needed to wait for it to thaw to room temperature first.Īfter about 30 minutes, the treat was ready to eat. This gigantic skewer contains a jaw-dropping 25 dango, and it’s so long it looks a bit like a bazooka or the sheath of a samurai sword when packaged up for transporting home. When our Harajuku-loving, young-at-heart reporter Mr Sato visited, he purchased the store’s most famous signature sweet - the “ Hana Yori Dango” (“ Dango Over Flowers“). ▼ The store sells a wide variety of dango (skewered dumplings), priced at around 289 yen (US$2.11) each. In March, however, the store opened a branch on Takeshita Street in Harajuku, where it’s been doing a roaring trade with the young crowd. Last year, this skewered dumpling specialty store took social media by storm with its crazy long sweets, but the only place you could try them was at its one store in Fukuoka Prefecture. It’s the perfect time for businesses to open new stores in the area, and one you shouldn’t miss is Hakata Yamadaya. 
Tokyo is slowly coming back to life again after being under a coronavirus cloud for several years, with foreign tourists returning and places like Harajuku bustling with crowds once more. Crazy long sweets are about to take over your Instagram and TikTok feeds, but are they worth eating?
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