Most Useful and Most Practical Travel Tips in Japan

Various types of dessert is available
at restaurants in Japan.

You may want to have some dessert after a dinner.

Following chart shows restaurant and available typical dessert.

type of restaurant	Typically available dessert
Japanese restaurant	Fruit, Ice cream
French restaurant	Mousse
Chinese	Almond jelly
Japanese Noodle	No dessert
Sushi	No dessert
Steak house	Sundae
Pizza	Ice cream
Ramen shop	No dessert
Italian restaurant	Tiramisu
Family restaurant	Fruit parfait
Eel restaurant	No dessert

Cakes at confectionary shops

Following cakes can be purchased from confectionary stores.
You can eat similar cake at western restaurants, cake shops and coffee shops.
Of course, restaurants serve you ice cream, sherbet and apple pie etc,.

Japanese Dessert

These dessert are not available at restaurants except Kammiten,specialized restaurant for only sweet.
Japanese dessert is based on red bean jam. We call it as An or Anko.

Mitsumame series

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Manjyu / Dango series

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Anko

Anko is made from Red bean. Boil red beans add sugar into them and mash them.
There are two types of Anko
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Tsubushi-an

Tsubushi-an just mashed

Koshi-an

Koshi-an well mashed and strained

This “an” tastes more smooth texture.