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N.Y. Caramel Sand – Caramel sandwich cookies coated in chocolate
Tokyo
N.Y. Caramel Sand – Caramel sandwich cookies coated in chocolate by Ginza Tamaya
4.1
Rating 4.1 · 5 reviews from Japanese buyers

[ Taste: 4.4 Value: 3.2 Volume: 3.6 Design: 4.6 Portability: 4.2 Shelf life: 4.4 ]

Western-style sweets Cookies & baked sweets
The one we recommend to people who like both caramel and chocolate is Tokyo Tamago Honpo's "N.Y. Caramel Sand"!
When you take a bite of the hard butter cookie, rich caramel melts out from inside.
This creamy caramel is coated in couverture chocolate, making it a truly luxurious sweet.

As the name says, the "N.Y. Caramel Sand" was born in New York, the big American city.
In New York, it was reportedly sold under the name "Havana Sand."
"Havana Sand" came to Japan in the 1960s.
It was brought to Japan as a souvenir from American business trips by high-class businessmen of the time, and spread mainly around Ginza.
This "N.Y. Caramel Sand" was developed based on it.
No wonder you feel a sense of luxury the moment you eat it!

It can be bought only at Daimaru Tokyo and Haneda Airport.
This alone lets you feel how high-class the sweet is.
It is an item worth getting when you visit Tokyo.

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What Japanese buyers say

Reviewers praise the crisp cookies with gooey caramel and chocolate inside, a refined taste that goes well with bitter coffee or tea. Buyers like the premium black packaging and small 4-piece boxes that are not bulky, and note the rarity of having few sales points and frequent queues. A few find it quite sweet.

Summary of 5 reviews posted on the Japanese site.

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