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A Chinese tea café in Nishi-Waseda, Tokyo. We will deliver Chinese medicinal sweets and curing teas that are not yet well known in Japan.

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A Chinese tea café in Nishi-Waseda, Tokyo. We will deliver Chinese medicinal sweets and curing teas that are not yet well known in Japan.

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A Chinese tea café in Nishi-Waseda, Tokyo. We will deliver Chinese medicinal sweets and curing teas that are not yet well known in Japan.

We offer medicinal sweets that incorporate the wisdom of Chinese food regimen.

Based on Chinese tea, we offer blended teas supervised by Chinese medicine experts.

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Honeydew is a Chinese tea café opened by a Japan couple and two Chinese exchange students (at the time) in Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, in October 2018.

Naoya Mukai, who ran the Takadanobaba Shimbun, a local web magazine covering the Waseda area from Takadanobaba to the Waseda area, and his wife, Maiko, who was attending a vocational school to obtain a qualification as an acupuncturist, met two Chinese students from Waseda University's graduate school and opened the place as a place to realize the future they envisioned.

Ms. Xie, who was an international student, opened the "Honeydew Chinese School" in 2020, and Maiko opened the "Honeydew Treatment Clinic" in 2021. In order to further expand the value of the "Honeydew" brand, we are working together on each business.

Even though Honeydew is a shop that serves Chinese tea, the reason why it is called a "café" instead of a "tea house" is because we want you to feel free to touch Chinese tea.

When it comes to Chinese tea, some people may have a formal image of manners and utensils. However, we want to bring you a fun time with tea, where Chinese people can relax with tea and chat with friends and family.

In April 2023, as a culmination of what Honeydew is doing, a book called "First Chinese Tea and Snacks" was published by Seibundo Shinkosha.

What are we doing?

"Snacks" from all over China, which are not well known in Japan, are eaten locally and reproduced with ingredients available in Japan. Yes, we do.

It is said that there are more than 40,000 Chinese restaurants in Japan, but the only desserts after a meal are apricot bean curd, sesame dumplings, and mango pudding. Then there's the representative of Chinese confectionery, mooncakes. In terms of area, China's land area is 25 times larger than Japan, so there is no reason why there is only so much sweetness. There are a lot of them.

I flew to the site to start the honeydew and ate a lot of snacks. I was impressed by the taste and deliciousness of the first time I encountered there. In order to share the local experience with everyone as much as possible, we change the menu every season. Even now, I go to China about twice a year to discover new snacks.

And this time, we have succeeded in carefully selecting sweets filled with the wisdom of Chinese dietary regimen from among the Chinese snacks served with honeydew and processing them into retort packs.

Just chill or warm it up, and you can easily eat Chinese medicinal sweets.

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Chinese medicinal sweets finished in retorts are commercialized as the "curing sugar water" series. It will be newly released in the fall of 2024.

Ingredients that are prized as beauty ingredients in China and Taiwan are finished in sweets with a modest sweetness, such as "Red Thorn Glue," which is made by cooking peach sap "Taojao," which is also said to be the tears of peach blossoms, and "Lotus Lily Silver Ear," which is made by combining white jellyfish, which is said to be the nest of swallows of the common people, with lotus seeds and lily roots.

The fluffy texture of peach glue and the simmered cooked silver ears (white jellyfish) are truly new texture sweets.

In addition, we also offer mung bean noodles, which are made by combining mung beans that take heat during hot weather with wheat wheat, and Cantonese-style red bean noodles with chen skin.

Who are supporting us?

It is a sweet that will please those who are interested in beauty and medicinal dishes, and those who have a high sensitivity to new foods that have not yet been seen.

In addition, soft ingredients with a texture like peach glue and silver ears can be safely enjoyed by elderly people who are worried about swallowing solid foods.

It is also possible to propose it as a sweet that the elderly can eat with peace of mind.

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