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At the base of the Skytree there\u2019s a dessert rooted in enmusubi traditions<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I think we can all agree that at any moment when you\u2019re eating ice cream, you\u2019re enjoying one of life\u2019s great blessings. It\u2019s when your dessert is finished that your mind will once again start to wonder about what your future fate will be, and to help answer that question, there\u2019s Negawakuba<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Negaqakuba is a store in Solamachi<\/strong>, the entertainment complex at the base of the Skytree<\/strong> in Tokyo\u2019s Oshiage<\/strong> neighborhood. It specializes in good-luck charms that draw on Shinto traditions and folklore, and that theme carries over to the attached cafe, which is offering Japanese-style ice cream parfaits with a side of fortune telling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Enmusubi no Goen Ice Manpuku no Imo<\/strong> is a special for-fall dessert with its most striking feature being the cookie styled like a bright red torii gate<\/strong>, of the kind that marks the entrance to Shinto shrine grounds. Forming a swirly cloud-like backdrop for the gate is a dollop of espuma cream<\/strong>, and providing the autumnal element are sweet potato chips, smooth sweet potato paste, and blocks of daigaku imo<\/strong>, glazed sweet potato sprinkled with black sesame. All of these sit atop a cup of salty vanilla ice cream<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The dessert is as packed with playful puns as it is mouthwatering ingredients<\/strong>. Enmusubi is a kind of good luck charm that\u2019s said to help form good relationships, usually of the romantic kind, but also possibly for good business or general interpersonal connections. These happy relationships are called goen<\/strong>, but when written with different kanji characters, goen<\/em> can also mean \u201chonorable salt.\u201d Likewise, the manpuku<\/strong> part of the Enmusubi no Goen Ice Manpuku no Imo\u2019s name is written with the kanji for \u201c10,000 blessings,\u201d but in the context of food manpuku<\/em>, if written differently, means \u201cfull\/satisfied stomach.\u201d With imo <\/em>meaning either potato or sweet potato, you could translate Enmusubi no Goen Ice Manpuku no Imo as either \u201cFilling Salty Ice Cream Sweet Potato Enmusubi\u201d<\/strong> or \u201cBlessed Good Relationship Seet Potato Enmusubi.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n By the way, if you\u2019re wondering about that cute little bunny pictured next to the parfait in the above photo, that\u2019s an usagi mikuji<\/strong>, a figurine shaped like a rabit (usagi<\/em>) with a paper telling you your fortune (mikuji<\/em>) inside. Usagi mikuji are sold at some Shinto shrines, and Negawakuba offers a set that bundles one with the Enmusubi no Goen Ice Manpuku no Imo<\/strong> for 1,275 yen (US$8). Alternatively, the dessert can be ordered a la carte for 750 yen, or with a cup of black tea grown in the town of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, whose enmusubi are said to be especially effective.<\/p>\n Ah, but if you don\u2019t order the set with the usagi mikuji, you won\u2019t know you future, right? Not necessarily, because customers who order the parfait without the figurine are invited to draw their fortune from a traditional mikuji box<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026and also to ring a set of kagura suzu bells<\/strong>, used by shrine maidens during ceremonial dances, with a wish in their heart.<\/p>\n The parfait can be ordered as either an eat-in or to-go item. It\u2019s on sale now, and will be offered while supplies last.<\/p>\n Cafe information<\/strong> Source, images: PR Times<\/a><\/em> At the base of the Skytree there\u2019s a dessert rooted in enmusubi traditions. 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\nNegawakuba \/ \u9858
\nAddress: Tokyo-to, Sumida-ku, Oshiage 1-1-2, Tokyo Skytree Solamachi East Yard 4th floor
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\nOpen 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
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