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J Sweets
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8 reviews for J Sweets
Yum, yum...LOVE the pastries here! I've always preferred Asian style desserts over American ones. Generally because I don't have a huge sweet tooth, it only takes a bit to satisfy my cravings. These pastries are not too sweet but totally satisfying. I love this one...I'm not sure what it is called but it is red bean sandwiched in between two soft pancake like breads. Sooo good! I love red bean and although this place is pricey you can totally taste the different of ingredients! They prices are high, for $10 you can get maybe 3 to 4..depending on which ones you get. This is not typical of most Asian bakeries where everything is super cheap but then you're paying for the distinct quality and taste here. Definitely worth trying at least once! For me, I got hooked but it is sooo bad for my pocket!
* The packaging is really pretty and perfect for gift giving. Christmas is right around the corner!!
We're lucky to have JSweets in the Bay Area. It brings together Satura Cakes (some offerings, not all) and Minamoto Kitchoan inside Mitsuwa. The result? Tiny Japanese sweets, including seasonal items, adorably wrapped and perfect for gift giving. This Minamoto Kitchoan has a larger selection of imported Japanese sweets than the one in San Francisco. You can get gift boxed items but many items can be purchased individually for about $2.50 - $3.50. I didn't see any samples but they do have plastic models of their cookies, crackers, mochi, and jellies to admire. The packets of dried natto caught my eye (I've never seen those before).
Satura Cakes items include fruity marshmallows, pretty cookies and cream puffs.
* Plain hachi ($1.50)/honey sweet potato: delish, it tasted like and had the consistency of a baked sweet potato, made with sweet potato, condensed milk, butter and eggs
* Kobe ijinkanmaki tsubuan ($2.30): a chewy small brown pancake wrapped around chunky red bean paste and chewy plain mochi, it was good but not as good as some of the other Japanese treats I've had
* Maccha bouchee ($3.50): The green sponge cake was soft, dry, and sweet; it didn't taste much like green tea. The filling, maccha cream, had more maccha flavor. I wouldn't get it again - the cake wasn't that good.
The treats were placed in a box (the box was from Japan). Be sure to check the expiration dates (usually on the bottom).
I definitely can appreciate this place now that I've been to the Minamoto Kitchoan in SF. Seems like they carry a decent amount of their goods plus some other vendors items. Got a persimmon jelly, sweet potato cake and some other randoms (dessert roulette!) that I dont even know what they are but are sure they're good. The thing I love about Japanese desserts are that they aren't too sweet and fit my palate which is more geared to savory. Glad that I can just head down here for these niche items instead of all the way to Minamoto (though I definitely endorse going there if you haven't).
Cute new addition to the lovely Mistuwa Market (formerly Yaohan). I grabbed some cookies from Kobe, some Sweet Potato Macha flavored Manju for my Mom, delicious Okaki (rice crackers) for a gift which I ended up inhaling...
This is a great place to try Japanese style cookies and rice crackers. Not the generic stuff you find in the aisle. Generic is not the right word, that's a bit harsh... I mean small boutique style Okaki not the mass produced kind. Once you try one, you will see and taste the difference. Enjoy!
Oh and don't you worry, I heart the mass produced stuff too!
Be careful, everything you pick up here must be paid here since they are a separate company. I found this out the hard way.
So I went to Mitsuwa before dinner at a nearby restaurant. There were a group of older Japanese men in suits outside huddled for some reason; some shaking hands and some taking pictures. They looked like a happy group.
When I walked in the store, I noticed a few more men in suits at the counter to my immediate right. There was another thing I noticed--pastries!
I tried to ignore it coz I only had 30 mins to get all my snacks and go check out Clover Bakery for some goodies I can take to work so I went in and out of Mitsuwa with my stuff and went to Clover and got some food for work in that 30 mins before I was suppose to meet my friends for dinner. Well I got a text that dinner will be late so I ended up with extra 30 mins to spare; I decided to go back and see what those pastries are.
I perused around J Sweets, looking at each little shelf and glass counter. I felt like I was in a make up or jewelry story. Most of the stuff were inside the glass counter or boxed up in pretty little packages. They have very cool displays of what kinds of sweets they offer (I wish I took more pictures); like those plastic food model that you just want to poke to see if they were real.
The had a variety of mochi looking things, cookies, sponge cakes, rice cakes, red bean and green tea concoctions and a bunch of things I was not familiar with but definitely looked good.
I decided I wouldnt go all dessert-crazy and buy boxes of a bunch of stuff so I went and got 2 little puff-like cookies that had cream filling in the middle (1 apple and one regular).
I was browsing around with my little cookies and each well-dressed staff was greeting me in Japanese (they were all wearing suits it was so nice). They showed me where to pay.
The pay station is a next to a sweet potato section where they have sweet potato mini muffins and sweet potato pasties and sweet potato chips. I ended up picking up a bag of the chips before I paid.
The girl ringing me up was a little frazzled and talked to me in fast Japanese; I told her I dont understand and she told me (in English) it was their grand opening so they were all kinda busy. She put a grand opening gift in my bag of goods after she rung up my stuff.
As for the desserts I purchase; well the sweet potato chips were excellent as were the two cookie-puff things I got. The sweet potato chips tasted like kamote-que (sugar-coated sweet potato that is deep fried and a popular Filipino street food). It was nice and crunchy and very addictive (I almost ate the entire bag during one of my 15-min breaks at work). The cookie-puff things were yummy and had just the right amount of sweetness. The apple was especially good.
This is definitely a place to check out for some goodies.
OMG J Sweets, how my mouth adores you....yet my wallet despises you.
We stopped by Mitsuwa over the weekend, to grab some rice crackers and candy. Having the mad munchies, I ended up with 5 bags of rice crackers, 5 bags of those gummie fruit candies, and then 5 bars of those candies that look like mambas and start off like gum, but is really candy. omg, so good.
But this wasn't enough to satisfy the munchies monster in me. On the way out, to the left, the shop that used to be an overpriced plates/dishes store, turned into an even more overpriced pastry/dessert shop. They sold boxes of dessert for $40-$80. At first, this seemed a little steep. But when breaking it down, it was kind of the same price as the Vietnamese moon cakes.
The big plus is you are able to get single servings of the goodies, and not just the gift box. We tried this lychee jelly with strawberry red bean puree. It was like those little coconut jelly cups you can buy by the bag at the grocery store (the ones where little kids used to choke on it, so they had to make them bigger), but this one was $4 and hella small. But when we ate it, you could tell where the money went. The red bean puree tasted like fresh strawberries, and the jelly part was light and soft.
Ooooh, I would minus one star for the sales lady who was following me around like I was black and she was korean and we were in a liquor store, but I can't bring myself to it. It's just too darn good.
Guys, I highly recommend getting your girls this in place of Godiva chocolates.
Ladies, bring that funky short dood you're gold diggin off (err, I mean you're chillin' with that just happens to pay for all meals and entertainment, but gets no booty) , and have him buy you boxes and boxes...oh, and get some to go too! :)
Just opened inside the Mitsuwa Marketplace. Had a lot of publicity the other day. Got some Mochi with redbean sorry forgot the japanese name for it. Very nice set up with service oriented sales people. Mochi was good and was offered another treat fukuwatashisenbei (cookie) for being one of the first 100 customers. woohoo! haha.
Good treats especially for gifts since they are wrapped very nicely. Most products have expiration dates so you know its fresh and straight from Japan. This boost the price up though. A little expensive for treats but worth trying out.
Yum! And fantastic service. I kind of like that everything is expensive here because it keeps me from inhaling everything too quickly.
