When the old tray has passed and the summer Koshien tournament is over, I feel like "This summer is over." The remaining heat is likely to continue, but the chilling midsummer heat is over. It's a bit lonely. ・・I came to Ginza aiming for a hot topic shaved ice with such a "summer to go"。
It is located in the middle of the second block in the direction of Shimbashi on Suzuran Street. This is the store in front of the Hama Sakumoto store.
This "Santokudo" is a Taiwanese puir tea specialty store, but "Taiwan shaved ice", which is open during the summer, is a hot topic on TV and magazines.
When you enter the shop one step, you will be wondering, "Where did you get lost" for a moment, with a cup of Taiwan color, such as tea packages, miscellaneous goods, and costumes. "Taiwan shaved ice" mainly focuses on the difference in syrup applied to ice shaved by ordinary shaved ice in Japan, whereas toppings are fruits, beans, jelly, etc. It may be said that it is a type similar to the famous shaved ice "Shirokuma" in Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.
Today's topic "Mango shaved ice" is already over the season, so we decided to have the most popular "Mameme shaved ice" (1,000 yen) and "Aitamago jelly shaved ice" (780 yen). "Mame Bean Shaved Ice" is 10 kinds of toppings by adding love egg jelly to nine kinds of beans. Rather, beans are the main thing. Unfortunately, it was after having a good lunch, so unfortunately I got up in half. It's wise to skip a meal and try it. "Ai Egg Jelly" has a syrup made of brown sugar boiled down with puir tea where a lot of jelly is topped. The syrup is quite sweet, but it has a surprisingly smooth texture.
According to the explanation of the shop, "Because it is boiled for a long time in pure tea, the unique texture of brown sugar will be eliminated." A combination of hot puirl tea that comes with you seems to be healthy. The sweet egg jelly I had after a long time was very nostalgic and delicious. In the past, I remembered the mysterious texture of Aitamago jelly, which I had for the first time in dessert, when a Chinese cook teacher was from Taiwan. By the way, "Aitamago" is said to be jelly-like when dried seeds are returned in water with plants similar to figs unique to Taiwan.
There is also a take-out of shaved ice (300 yen).
Ginza Santokudo: 7-8-19 Ginza, Chuo-ku Kita Building 1 and 2F
Business hours 11:00 to 22:00 (Saturdays and holidays 12:00 to 19:00 all year round)
