From adorable character pop-up cafés to Disney-themed sweets, Japan definitely has a knack for cute food. If you want more evidence of this, look no further than these traditional wagashi sweets shaped as Doraemon at convenience store Lawson.
The Doraemon wagashi are being released to celebrate the new movie ‘Doraemon: Nobita's Sky Utopia’, which premieres this March (and also has its own blimp). You can get two different sweets – one of Doraemon holding a dorayaki (the character’s favourite snack) and the other showing the blue cat robot making a cute face. The Doraemon wagashi with the dorayaki is filled with koshian (sweet red bean paste) while the other has a custard-flavoured bean paste.
You can pick up these Doraemon wagashi at Lawson from Tuesday March 7 for ¥285 each. Do note that the sweets won’t be available at Natural Lawson or Lawson 100 stores.
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