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Sweets

Miyoko Matsuzaki

     　Good afternoon everyone!! This time is final blog. So, I would like to talk about Chinese sweets and Korean sweets. I had told about sweets of two countries until before blog. However, there are a lot of sweets which I had not told about yet. So, I want to write about a lot of sweets as much as possible.

 

     The black sesame rice porridge which puts a dumpling with sweet taste and is eaten is the traditional China dessert.  Since these sweets warm the body, they are eaten especially with the table of the Han race of winter. It is a digression about black sesame. Black sesame is introduced to the oldest book on medicine "神農本草経" in the world as food which promotes the health of mind and body. Black sesame is recorded as food which protects a liver, the heart, a lung, etc., reinforces physical strength, and it not only heightens concentration, but makes the body light.

 

       There is a dessert to drink in South Korea. Since it is called tradition tea, these are all sweet fundamentally, and if drinking it after eating hot Korean cuisine, they will make the inside of a mouth mellow. And since vegetables, fruit, etc. are used, it is very healthy. I explain two kinds of tradition tea.

 

      Firstly, I explain tradition tea called shikke. Shikke is a sweet drink which is in South Korea for many years, and it drinks as a dessert. Although it is called "sweet drink made from fermented rice", this is used also as language by means of which alcohol points out the drink contained a little. Shikke is made from the boiled rice and malt which were mainly steamed. The South Korean ancestor made and drank this sweet, in order to help after a meal and digestion. Moreover, when ancestors drank this in winter, they floated pine nuts on this and drank, but it is the wisdom for making it drink slowly to float pine nuts on this, in order to break the belly, when a cold drink is drunk in a hurry.

 

Sujyonga(水正果) is bitter-sweet flavor tradition tea. Pine nuts are floated on this. The South Korean ancestor often made as savory after a meal, and drank. It mainly drinks on lunar-calendar January 1. The sweet taste of a soft dried persimmon and the scent of cinnamon and a ginger harmonize well, and a characteristic scent is the feature.

 

 

That’s all! Thank you for reading my blog!

Korean sweets ２

 

Miyoko Matsuzaki

 

     　Good afternoon everyone!!  This time I would like to talk about Korean sweets　part2. There are many delicious sweets in South Korea still more. I would like to introduce many sweets this time also.

 

        Firstly, I would like to talk about Kulutare. Kulutare is South Korean tradition court confectionery. These sweets are also called yonnsuyomu. Originally it has been loved 2000 years or more before with the confectionery of the China origin. These sweets are kinds of a kneading candy. These sweets bundle 10,000 or more filar white things which used powder of honey, malt, and corn as materials. To the dough, sesame, a walnut, pine nuts, a peanut, an almond, soybean flour, etc. are covered, and it is made a form like a cocoon. Crunchy texture is characteristic. Since it was offered as what symbolizes a king's long life and a fortune in the Korean monarchical age, it is classified as a court dish. Eventually, two corded dough becomes the shape of thin thread exceeding 16,384. The process until it makes dough into the shape of 16,384 threads is often demonstrated at stalls, such as Insa-dong in Seoul, and Myondong. The situation can be said expert workmanship. There is also a store which is performing this performance in English, Chinese, Japanese, etc. for foreign tourists. Kulutare is sweets in which a cooking process is very interesting.

 

        Yakka is traditional South Korea confectionery. In South Korea, it is loved from ancient times as the snack in every day, and an offering thing of the performance of ancestral rites. It can make easily also at home. It sells also at the supermarket regardless of the season. Most of these sweets has imitated the flower. They are pretty sweets.

     

       Hottoku is popular South Korean sweets. In South Korea, it is mainly sold at the stall of a between-meal snack system, etc. in winter. It is a cheap and popular confectionery sweet. If it says at a word, it is in it like the hot cake containing sweet been jam. These sweets are like "oyaki" of Japan. "Hottoku" means the rice cake (tokku) of 胡 (= China). The Chinese merchant who has immigrated at the end of the 19th century produced these sweets. In South Korea, it is loved widely. There are various variations in this sweet. Dough has a thing using corn powder, and a thing which mixed green tea. The taste of inner bean jam is also various.

 

     That’s all!!! Thank you for reading my blog.

 

Korean sweets 1

 

Miyoko Matsuzaki

 

      Hello, everyone! I would like to talk about South Korean sweets this time. Japan is a big Korean boom now. A South Korean drama, music, a dish, cosmetics, etc. are very popular in Japan. I often look at a South Korean drama. However, I do not know what kind of sweets is famous for South Korea. Many media have reported South Korea. However, there are few reports about sweets. So, I wished to investigate about South Korean sweets.

 

     Fache is sweets like the South Korean version fruit punch. It is written as "花菜" with a Chinese character. Fruit is floated into a soda pop or tea. Fruit appears like a flower is beautiful. The kind with various fruits is contained. It is South Korean traditional sweets and how to make is also easy.  So, it is loved by South Koreans as home cooking

 

 

     It is very hot in South Korea as well as Japan in summer. So, sweets called Pappinse are popular in South Korea. This is a dessert like kakigoori. Much fruit and ice have got on ice. It is greatest popularity from a woman from appearance or flavor. "Pa" means it an azuki bean and "Ppinse" means chipped ice. How to eat differs from Japanese kakigoori. These sweets are mixed shapelessly and eaten. It is very tasty although appearance worsens.

 

 

     Pachu is the sweet red bean soup with mochi of the South Korean version sweet red bean soup with mochi. It is the food eaten on the winter solstice. It was believed that a red color paid a bad thing and cured illness. This sweet was introduced by the hit program of Japan recently, and became the center of attention. The popular idol and the actress ate this sweets. It seems that the televiewer was surprised since the reaction was not so good. However, probably, it must be tasty, since sweetness became moderate in sweet red bean soup with mochi and saltiness only became strong.

 

 

      I hear that South Korea has few sweets as for having investigated so far and having considered. It seems that there are actually few stores with a dessert even if it visits a restaurant in South Korea.

     That’s all! Thank you for seeing my blog.

 

Chinese sweets ２.

Chinese sweets　２.

F 34 12112336 Miyoko Matsuzaki

 

Hello, everyone!  The blog is written about the sweets in the world this time also. I would like to talk about Chinese sweets.

 

 

　　　　　　The kind of fruit is more abundant in the major supermarkets of the urban areas of China than the supermarket in Japan. Most fruits are made in China. Because, Chinese land is vast and there is a place of various climates. So, the fruit which grows up in warm climate, and the fruit which grows up in cold climate are simultaneously set at the store. It is wonderful that various fruits can provide in China. China's quantity of production of the fruit is the world's No.1 from 1994 to now.

The fruits with much quantity of production are a mandarin orange, an apple, a pear, a peach, etc. in China. The quantity of production of an apple, a pear, and a peach is the world's No.1.

 

The country of origin of the peach is said to China. When a peach was born, the surface of hard flesh was covered with much hair as the name of "毛毛."  In China, a peach is very auspicious fruit. In China, a peach is called 仙果 and loved as a plant which gives perpetual youth and longevity from ancient times. In the case of an auspicious occasion, there is a custom of eating peach steamed bun. These sweets are very lovely by the design of a peach.

 

 

Although it is a digression, there are each sweet in each country. Moreover, it may also turn out that there are a country which likes sweets, and a country which is not so. How is China?

For example, although Japanese people are favorite chocolate, it seldom eats in China. Why is it? Although it is clear that Chinese sweets also have change under the influence of Western culture these days, there are not many people who still eat chocolate daily in China. It is because there is an idea that a sweet thing is what a child eats, in China for many years. In China, an adult seldom even does licking a candy. However, it seldom has this feeling in the latest young man. However, the old person of the interest to sweets is still thin.

 

That’s all! Thank you for seeing my blog. In the following blog, I write about South Korean sweets.

Chinese sweets 1

Chinese sweets 1

F/34/12112336  Miyoko Matsuzaki

    
       Hello, everyone! My name is Miyoko Matsuzaki. We are group3. We would like to talk about sweets.

       OUTLINE
       1 Asian sweets
       2 European sweets1
       3 Oceanic sweets
       4 European sweets2
       5 American sweets

        This is our outline. We have devided our presentasion into 5 parts.


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Out line

１　Chinese sweets1

２　Chinese sweets2

３   Korean sweets1

４　Korean sweets2

５　Sweets　（China+Korea）

 

 First of all, I would like to talk about Chinese sweets this time. China is growing rapidly. In particular, they are economy, politics, etc. Now, China is not too much to say the center in the world. There is long history in China. So, there is rich gastronomic culture in China. Chinese food is popular in Japan. Chinatown is located in Yokohama. I often have a meal in Chinatown.

   

 

 A Chinese-style almond jelly is famous for Chinese sweets. A Chinese-style almond jelly is arranged variously and sold even in Japan. I can eat a very high quality Chinese-style almond jelly at a convenience store now. So, a Chinese-style almond jelly is delicious, I like it very much.

Apricot kernels are the seeds of an apricot. Although the soybean was not used, since the form resembled tofu, it was named the Chinese-style almond jelly. If it is called tofu, it tends to take in the meaning of decaying beans, but in China, the character "腐" does not mean "It rots”. The character "腐" means "solidifying" and "a soft solid." Therefore, tofu meaning is "the food which hardened beans."

 A Chinese-style almond jelly is medical food with not a mere dessert but the medicinal effect. It is effective in making mind settle down as Chinese medicine. It is used as a throat candy even in Japan.

 In 1644 when agar was invented, all the materials of the present Chinese-style almond jelly gathered. It is thought that the Chinese-style almond jelly by the present agar was made after 1644Moreover, probably the birthplace of a Chinese-style almond jelly is Guangdong.

 

    

 

     The deep fried sesame balls are also famous in China. There are various kinds of "餡". It is wrapped in dough, sesame is sprinkled and it fries in oil. They are the popular sweets eaten as one of the desserts after a meal in China. In China, it is called the "芝麻球”.  It is soft and savory dim sum. Dim sum is a Chinese between-meal snack. This was introduced into Japan in the Muromachi period. The name of "dim sum" has the opinion of having come from Zen words "sukibara（空心）ni syousyoku wo tenn zuru."

 

The explanation about Chinese sweets is finished. The Chinese sweets 2 will be written in the following blog. Thank you for seeing my blog.