Only in Japan girls do all the work. That's right. Valentines Day is more of a mans holiday in Japan. There are no flowers with poems or gift wrapped boxes or breakfasts in bed for the ladies here. In Japan the women often hand make chocolates of various assortments and intricate designs or will bake something for a man or men who are their friends or secret crushes.
This day is elaborate in terms of Japan, where you will see a lot of red and pink in the stores and they start selling incredible baking supplies: heart cookie tins, and pick silicon cake molds, decorative cake liners, icing syringes, and most interestingly, these intricate decorative truffle molds. These molds might be in the shapes of cats or dogs and they might have swirls or hearts or a number of ornamentations, where if done just right with different colors of chocolate, they will look like little masterpieces. You can find these at the local dollar store or at nicer stores like Muji or Loft, which will sell ones that have a bit more quality to their design.
You might think that women get the short end of this stick, but our day will come. Don't you worry. That day is White Day and it is a month after Valentines Day, on March 14th.
Pics to come later when I take mine out of the moulds!
And here they are!
The first one is Strawberry Lemonade White Chocolate
And the second one is Orange Milk Chocolate
It is also my little Bro's Birthday on Valentines day. So I had my whole class sing to him!
Happy Birthday Little Bro!
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