Kusa Daifuku
Rice cake made by a company famous for producing rice cake flour
Japanese notation "きんとんまんじゅう"
Asahiya Honten in Shioya-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, is a very long-established Japanese confectionery founded in 1897. The “Kinton-manju” , sweet bun is their signature product of and has been loved for a long time.
The Manju made from white kidney beans, and the outer dough is also finished in white.
The texture of the dough is fluffy and soft like sake-kasu (Sake lees) manju.
Red bean paste made from white beans is filled in the manju.
It has a simple and natural sweetness. The texture of the white kidney beans is just right, and we can tatste carefully made natural ingredients. It is indeed a manju that has been loved for a long time.