Kaitsuka is a baked sweet potato specialty store in Ibaraki Prefecture, originated by a sweet potato specialty company with sweet potato love. It is made by a sweet potato professional, so it is so sweet and delicious. Recently, it has been featured on many television programs. It has become a name known nationwide.
The Yakimo Wizard‘s Shop that I introduced before is an old fashioned store. This “Kaitsuka” store has modern and sophisticated taste. Both shops are popular and always full of customers.
Sweet Potatoes with love
They have not only baked sweet potatoes, but also frozen baked sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, savory sweet potatoes, cookies, cakes, puddings, pies, glaces, roll cakes, and gelato. You will also find potage and baked sweet potato lattes. They also sell soft serve ice cream to eat on the spot. When I went, there is an event an all-you-can-pack sweet potato deal for 300 yen.
This is a great shop to look and feel how much Japanese people love sweet potatoes.
Natural food loved all year round
As it is a vegetable, the taste changes depending on the season, which is one of its charms. From October to December after harvest, you can enjoy the refreshing taste and chewy texture of new potatoes. From January to September, potatoes are matured in the storehouse and served. They become sweeter and more sticky. In hot days, chilled-baked sweet potatoes are perfect food to enjoy. Whether you put them in the refrigerator and eat them chilled, or take them out of the freezer and eat them half-thawed, you can enjoy baked sweet potatoes like an elegant summer dessert.
Buying by the box is recommended
You can buy them online, but if you go to the store, make sure to buy a box of unevenly sized sweet potatoes which are not suitable for gift package! Online they are sold by the number of pieces because of fixed potato sizes to look nice, but in stores they are sold by the kilo. This is a bargain product that contains sweet potatoes of different sizes. I can’t resist a bargain, so I bought two boxes!
This is 1 kilo of matured baked sweet potatoes “Yumehiraku”. They are moist, have a smooth texture, and an elegant sweetness.
This is Beniko potato. This is an easy-to-eat baked sweet potato set filled with unevenly sized Beniteshi potatoes, which have a sticky texture and a rich, mature sweetness. A convenient size for snack.
This is what the inside of the box looks like. It’s packed with baked sweet potatoes of various sizes.
How to eat
The box clearly shows delicious ways to eat it, sorry only in Japanese. You can also make jam out of it. I recommend that the best way to eat it is just as is.
Sweet potatoes and Yakiimo are evolving more and more. Please enjoy baked sweet potatoes, which Japanese people love. You will be amazed at how delicious baked sweet potatoes are and the variety of sweet potato dishes available.
The Kaituka Tsukuba store is also close to the Italian cafe Cornu copia, where is filled with love. And, please be sure to visit the Yakiimo Wizard’s shop, too. You will feel the difference in Yakiimo taste, and you would love both.
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Kaitsuka Tsukuba branch 93－18, Matsunoki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
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