Japanese Sweet - Onrai Manto Pineapple Cake in Hiroshima 呉の鳳梨萬頭（おんらいまんとう）

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Onrai Manto, Hiroshima pineapple cake

As I've written in several posts, I moved too many times in my childhood so I can't say where I'm from in Japan. But my parents are definitely from Hiroshima although they sometimes pretend to be from Tokyo....

Anyway, Onrai Manto or this Hiroshima pineapple cake is made by Tenmeido, a Japanese cake bakery in Kure city, Hiroshima prefecture. Kure city, my dad's hometown, used to be a base for Japan's navy before the war and currently is one of the main ports for Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. 

I didn't like cakes, cookies or even ice creams, only eating fruit jellos when I was small, but now enjoy these flour desserts, including this pineapple cake!

The Kure-city pineapple cake tastes like (or actually is one type of) Taiwanese pineapple cakes. It's available in Hiroshima Brand Shop in Ginza (as Innoshima Island Orange Jello) and 98 yen including Japanese VAT. My chubby husband bought ten of them last week. I keep telling him, before eating, "Do buttocks & pen exercise!!!!"

広島県呉市、天明堂の鳳梨萬頭（おんらいまんとう）です。全く興味なかったのですが、夫が大好きで付き合っているうちにその良さが分かってきました。素朴です。コーヒーに合います！

因島のはっさくゼリーと同様、ひろしまブランドショップで買えます。98円（税込み）です。夫は10個買ってました。食べる前に尻ペンやらせてます！