We eat Taiyaki-kun

Hello!! It's hot today, isn't it?

Today, I'll tell you about one of Japanese sweets.

I ate "taiyaki" for my today's snack.

I ate taiyaki whose contants was custard cream.
Traditional taiyaki contains red bean jam, but I don't like adzuki beans. (Why did people who created taiyaki select red bean jam as contents. Japanese often put it in sweets...um...)

When I go to a taiyaki shop, I always choose chocolate cream or custard cream taiyaki!!

Now taiyaki is hot somehow. Around my home, there are about five taiyaki shops.

Ordinary taiyaki is covered with soft and a little dry coating. The taste and the texture of this coating are like a hot cake's. (Taiyaki was made in Japan in the begenning of 1900s)

a cute sweet!!

However, there are various kinds of taiyaki in Japan now. Contents are chestnut cream, caramel cream, chocolate and banana, chocolate and OREO and so on...

In addition, there are a variety of coatings. White taiyaki is a taiyaki whose coating is white and sticky like "mochi". There is taiyaki whose coating is thin, so its surface is crispy.

Which kind of taiyaki do you like? Have you ever seen unique ones?

What I ate today was crispy one! I love it!!

Ah!! When you hear the word of taiyaki, what do you remember??

I remembered "oyoge! taiyaki-kun" song!

Surprisingly, there is a English version of this song!! Try it !! "Swim, Taiyaki-Kun!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxM3mCb7AkM&feature=related long....

The English lyrics is not so different from the Japanese ones, and I felt this song was cool than Japanese one because it was sung in English(;-D) Especially, I liked " I want to be free".
I knew taiyaki's life was so harsh...

Japanese one was released in 1975. More than 5 million discs has sold until now. WOW!!

The reason why this song became popular is not sure, but it seems that office workers sympathized with taiyaki destiny. They also wanted to run away from thier busy offices, and they wanted to do what they want to do!!

Now we think ' If you want to quit your job, you had better do that.' This is because we are permitted to do whatever freely. However, I think those days it was difficult to act against what everyone does. I wonder if we were born in good era.

Taiyaki-Kun, good job!!! You are cool.

However, we continue to eat taiyaki because you are delicious!

Do you eat from its head or its tail(:-p)??