On my last post, I shared my trip to Mitsuwa Marketplace.  On this post, I wanted to share a few of the items I bought!

First of all, here are the packaged sweets.

Here is the Yan Yan, which comes with a bunch of sticks and a dipping creme.  I’m a fan of strawberry, but the vanilla (which I tried for the first time) was pretty good too.  Pocky will still always be my favorite.  🙂

Mochi with five different flavors!  Not mochi ice cream like at Trader Joe’s; this is the real deal.

If you peek inside, it looks pretty similar, but one definitely had a strawberry filling and one had chocolate mixed with the red bean.  All of them were delicious!

Going back to savory items, I bought some pickled cabbage, which I would really like to learn how to make one day.  Also, a bonito flake rice ball and some spicy nori strips to snack on.

Now for the bakery items!

Here are the savory ones first.  The curry donut was popular, so I wanted to try it out.  Not much to look at, and…

…the inside is not much to look like either.  However, I would totally get this again!  The inside has a kind of vegetable curry and the outside is just like a perfectly lgiht donut with a slight crunch outside.

This is the Croquette Roll which contains a Vegetable Croquette (the crunchy fish stick-looking item) with Worcestershire sauce and mayo baked into a pastry.  It’s a meal that you can eat one-handed!

The item that I think is the prettiest is this Sweet Potato Tart.

I took out a tiny little slice to sample it.  Delicious crust with a filling that tasted like almond paste!

This was an addicting Bavarian pastry.  Simply delicious!

Next, the Crispy Cream!  It is a sweet bread filled with custard cream and cookie dough on top.  Really.

I was slightly disappointed with the hard cream inside, but a couple of seconds in the microwave solved that!

Lastly, one of my favorites of the bunch a Red Bean-filled Danish!

It combines a perfect French-style pastry with Japanese red bean paste.  The perfect marriage for a pastry.  🙂

Anyways, those are the items I brought back from Mitsuwa from this trip.  Next time, I promise it will all be completely different because I cannot wait to try more delicious treat.  Yum!

Mitsuwa Marketplace
665 Paularino Avenue
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 557-6699
mitsuwa.com