February 14 Valentine's Day is a special day for Patisserie. This is the first Valentine's Day for RAU, the original sweets brand. In addition to sales at stores, the store is also opening at the Valentine Fair held at Takashimaya Kyoto Store. What kind of confectionery did “RAU” show while each shop was devising it?

Amur Du Chocolat, held at Takashimaya Kyoto Store until February 14, is a festival of chocolates where selected chocolates from around the world as well as in Japan are gathered. Every year, this is a Valentine's fair that shows the greatest excitement in Kyoto city.

Sweets full of challenges

GOOD NATURE STATION 's original sweets brand "RAU" also opened at this event. One patissier, Yusuke Matsushita, says that during the short preparation period of less than two months after opening, the confectionery produced by RAU is packed with various challenges.

Tart chocolate (3 pieces) | 2,268 yen (10 sets each day only)

"Tart chocolate" prepared for this fair is a limited sale at Takashimaya Kyoto store. The contents are moist baked rich souffle chocolate and hazelnut praline. Monaca fabric is coated with orange-flavored white chocolate. Underneath is the dough used for Japanese sweets. It is a new confectionery that can enjoy different textures between moist chocolate and crisp crisp.

Matsushita: “Monaka dough is made of mochi rice, so it's a Japanese tart. French tart chocolate uses butter dough, but if you try to make it a vegetable dough, you can't express a Japanese tart. I recently thought that French people are starting to use it, and some of them are a material that has received a lot of unexpected attention. "

TAKE ｜ 3,780 yen (10 each day only)

This is, as the name suggests, a beautiful bamboo. The contents are rich Uji matcha and fresh citrus ganache. It is not yet sold at GOOD NATURE STATION stores, and was first shown to customers at this fair.

Matsushita: "Japanese people tend to be gentle and hate direct expression. That's why I wanted to express bamboo with a Japanese image as it is. But to put it the other way around, there are no Japanese people making such confectionery. Thankfully, it seems that customers from overseas are paying attention. "

As Matsushita says, "I want to embrace new sensibilities," Bonbon Chocolat is also unusual.

iro-iro (with 9 tablets) | 3,564 yen

Nine colorful chocolates are inside the impressive diamond-shaped package. Nine of the 17 types are set daily, from those that can directly feel the original taste of cacao to those that can enjoy the combination of various shades and flavors that are characteristic of Bean to Bar. . A bean-to-bar, which often becomes a simple chocolate such as a tablet, is bonbon chocolate. The free combinations and delicate differences in taste that can only be expressed because the patissiers are handmade in the workshop are unique to RAU.

Pour all the skills you have

Free shapes and colors that are not bound by stereotypes, and Japanese sensibilities that can be seen everywhere. All the sweets lined up at the Valentine's Fair are the ones that have never been seen before, which is typical of "RAU" called Sweets Lab.
 
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Matsushita: “There are so many flavors that you can't find anywhere else, or chocolates that have this combination, so I think you'll be able to experience a chocolate world like never before. We put all our technology into the chocolate we can make, and we want to transform this industry with the younger generation.

Don't forget to give this RAU patissier a chocolate filled with the freedom and challenges of Valentine's Day.

Takashimaya Kyoto Store "Amur Du Chocolat"

Period | Until February 14, 2020

Time | 10: 00-20: 00

Venue | Takashimaya Kyoto Store 7F Special Venue