The bitterness is its charm! A thorough report of Seven Eleven’s Matcha Sweets Vol. 1

Do you like matcha?
I love matcha!
I went to Seven Eleven the other day, and I saw lots of green bags on the shelves.
They were all matcha sweets, and I was really tempted to eat them all.

This time, I will introduce you to delicious Seven Eleven matcha sweets!

Uses Marukyu Koyamaen’s Matcha: Rich Matcha Mokko

First, I will introduce the “Rich Matcha Mokko”!
With a long-standing history, Marukyu Koyamaen is a tea house that focuses on the quality of their tea.
If they use tea from a tea house like this one, it must be good, right?
Actually, all of the sweets I am introducing this time uses Marukyu Koyamaen’s matcha!

Now, let’s try the Matcha Mokko!

The green pastry is beautiful.
It looks like a cream puff from the outside.
When you split it in half, you can see there is lots of cream inside!
The outer shell has a mochi-like texture to it.
The matcha cream inside is more bitter than other matcha sweets, but it is not too sweet and very easy to eat.
It feels as if they transformed the matcha into a cream.
Since there is a lot of cream inside, you will definitely feel satisfied.
Excluding Saga Prefecture and the Shikoku region, Matcha Mokko is sold at Seven Elevens all over Japan for 140 yen (tax included).

Matcha Warabi & Shiratama: Cream Zenzai

Next, I will introduce “Cream Zenzai”!
The red bean paste used in this Cream zenzai is made from adzuki beans from Tokachi District, Hokkaido.

As shown in the photo on the left, you cannot see the contents when it is on the shelves.
Products, where you cannot see the contents inside like this, makes me want to buy it!
When you open the lid, you can see the matcha cream, warabi mochi, and shiratama (mochi) as shown in the photo on the right.
There are a lot of red bean paste underneath these toppings.

The matcha cream is bitter and delicious.
The red bean paste is quite sweet, so it is recommended to eat it with the matcha cream, warabi mochi, and the shiratama.
Though it has a slightly high price of 298 yen (tax included), it is very filling for convenience store sweets!
Cream Zenzai is sold in Seven Elevens all over Japan.

Uses Marukyu Koyamaen’s Matcha: Uji Matcha Dorayaki

Next, I will introduce “Uji Matcha Dorayaki”!

From the top, it looks like a normal dorayaki (a Japanese confection made from red bean paste sandwiched between pancake-like patties).
However, from the side, you can see that matcha is used in every part of the confection; the cream is matcha-colored and the pancakes have matcha kneaded in them as well.

When you split it in half, you can see that there is matcha cream, warabi mochi, and brown sugar syrup inside.
The matcha cream inside this dorayaki is less bitter than the other two sweets I introduced.
The warabi mochi inside has a soft, chewy texture that is easy to bite into. Because it is chewy, you can enjoy the different textures of this dessert.
In addition, the brown sugar syrup brings out the flavor of matcha as well.
One Uji Matcha Dorayaki is 170 yen (tax included).
And those were a few of the matcha sweets from Seven Eleven!
Did you find one that you would like to try?
There are many more matcha sweets at Seven Eleven, and I will introduce those in Vol.2 of this column.
Stay tuned!