Minamoto Kitchoan

My boyfriend and I make a special trip here every time we go to the city. Neither of us has never gotten anything we didn't love, and we splurge and get a big bag every time. It's not the most... welcoming place, the staff is lovely, but it's so quiet and pristine that it's sort of hard to get used to, but it's worth it. Delicious.

Felt very discriminated upon. They were not paying us attention. Then once someone acknowledged us they were making it very difficult for us to order. We wanted to order 1 piece of a few items since it was our first time. They kept telling us everything was frozen. But I studied human psychology and they demonstrated discomfort and wanted my spouse and I out. I believe because we had urban wear. He’s an urban Wear model and we are of Hispanic culture. We left confused. As we walked we had this feeling of humiliation, downgraded, and sadden. We couldn’t believe the treatment. This took place Sunday 11/8 around 6pm.

High quality Japanese sweets made mainly with rice flower and bean paste, walnuts, matcha powder, and other fresh ingredients. They have a very short shelf life due to their freshness and mostly absence of preservatives. They are imported directly from Japan. If you like this kind of non-too-sweet-sweets, this is a pretty amazing experience. Expensive, but you pay for quality.

From the packing to the first bite, this was a welcome sweet stop for us. This is a Red Bean snack paradise that was fresh tasting even though they were packaged. The green leaf rice party was velvet soft. Some of their sweets look like snow globes with Gold Fish or glass souvenirs, enticing. You can pick up a nice gift here if you are stuck on ideas. Very opulent cravings

Excellent desserts. I would highly recommend the ones which expire in 1-2 days (the in-store pick up ones). The sakura mochi is my favourite! The others which are packed (and have a shelf life of 1-2 months) simply have too many ingredients like various gums and preservatives. Even if these ingredients are extracts of natural substances, the end result feels too not-natural.

If you like Japanese dessert, try this place! I remember my dad bringing little Japanese manju whenever he had a trip to Japan. I love how outside is so smooth and inside was filled with sweet bean fillings. I was able to go back to that memories from this store. Price is a bit $$$$ but, hey, they are GOOD. Staffs are super friendly and their packaging is just so cute :D