Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’

The Valentine’s Day Business Scene

A report from FTV takes a look at the Valentine’s Day business scene in New York:

A short summary of the video’s contents:

• Valentine’s Day in America is celebrated differently in America: men give presents to women. The average amount spent on gifts is 170 dollars, with a nationwide spending total of about 1.8 trillion yen.
• The report introduces us to Keiko Hasegawa, a Japanese woman who works in New York as a package designer for Godiva. Hasegawa’s designs are used on Godiva chocolate packages around the world. She tells the camera that American consumers tend to like red-colored packages for the Valentine’s Day season, but in markets like Japan it is necessary to use colors such as pink or purple, which female consumers would find more appealing.

Chocolate Fukuoka Castle

A very cool way to celebrate Valentine’s Day:

The Hawks Town Mall shopping center in Fukuoka has put up on display models of Fukuoka Castle and the Nagasaki Kaido road made out of sweets.

A total of 287 students at Nakamura Culinary School in Fukuoka spent four months creating the models. They crafted them using eggs and marzipan with sugar and almonds to reproduce the finest details, such as roof tiles and stone walls of the castle, whose 400th anniversary is being celebrated.

Japanese Spa Resort Opens Chocolate Bath

Valentine’s Day is coming soon, so Hakone’s Yunessun Spa Resort has opened a special chocolate bath:

According to the Yunessun homepage, the chocolate bath will be open to visitors from January 13th until February 18th, with special additions of chocolate syrup into the bath at 10:30AM and 2:00PM daily.

Yunessun is well known for its many special baths, which include a green tea bath, a wine bath, a coffee bath, and even ramen and curry baths!