Japanese lifestyle chain Mujirushi Ryohin is launching green-tea covered strawberries. The new candies are a variation on Mujirushi’s white chocolate-covered strawberries, its best-selling sweets. This time, though, powdered Uji matcha, Japan’s most prized variety of tea, is mixed into the white chocolate, giving an eye-catching colour and refreshing bitterness to the covering of the freeze-dried strawberries.
The green tea strawberries carry a slight premium, costing 300 yen (US$2.90) for a 50-gram (1.8-ounce) bag, compared to the regular white chocolate’s 280 yen. They’re still a very affordable indulgence, though, and we expect plenty of people will be snatching them up when they go on sale September 21 at Mujirushi locations throughout Japan, or September 23 when they become available in the Mujirushi online shop.
