Minamoto Kitchoan is one of the more popular wagashi chains in Japan. What's wagashi? It's traditional Japanese confectionery usually served with tea. Some of the most common are made of mochi or stuffed with sweet red bean paste.
Minamoto is a big outfit with locations in 11 cities and 7 countries. There's a Minamoto Kitchoan in Torrance's Mitsuwa Marketplace. Now one is coming to Newport Beach's Fashion Island.
]
If you're wondering why the next Minamoto Kitchoan will open in Fashion Island and not in Costa Mesa's own Mitsuwa Marketplace, it's because that Mitsuwa already has a wagashi shop called J.sweets.
Follow Stick a Fork In It on Twitter @ocweeklyfood or on Facebook! And don't forget to download our free Best Of App here!
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.