On the train heading back to Tokyo, I set about eating a fresh dorayaki – red bean pancake – I’d purchased from a store in Hakone. It was a very popular store selling a lot of Japanese traditional cakes and pastries. I just have no idea what it is called but its logo was a rabbit.
I can’t remember the price of this dorayaki. I think it cost over JPY120. I had to buy it because it was fresh and because I was in Japan and I HAD to eat Doraemon’s favourite snack!
I’d eaten dorayaki before in Malaysia. It tended to be sweet or tasteless or just blah. This freshly made dorayaki was warm and sinfully delicious.
Look at that slab of pure butter right in the middle of the red bean paste!!
I was a bit worried at first that it would be cloying. But it was not. It was rich in taste, the red bean tasted fully of red beans instead of sugar and it was all round yummy!
Now, can we get this here made this way too? 
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oh my…looks delicious…but i don’t eat red bean. any chance of other flavours?
@foodaholic: Er… its not dorayaki without red bean lah
omg that looks so good. you’re right about the locally available dorayaki. so depressing! a lot of pancake and barely any red bean paste. eck
@connie: hence i don’t eat dorayaki here! LOL