Ken’s Cafe Tokyo
The owner chef of Japan’s first gateau chocolate specialty store “Ken’s Cafe Tokyo” publishes a picture book!
-Recommended as a gift for Valentine’s Day! A recipe picture book that makes it easy to make authentic gateau chocolate from a specialty store
The owner chef of Japan’s first gateau chocolate specialty store “Ken’s Cafe Tokyo” (location: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) will publish his first picture book from Ken Ele Books.
Released from February 3, 2023 (Friday). Reservations are being accepted at bookstores nationwide, Amazon, Rakuten Books, etc. [Image 1
[Web page] https://books.kenelephant.co.jp/products/9784910315232 Synopsis of “Guruguru Gateau Chocolat”
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The main character is Rieko-chan, a sweets-loving girl whose father is a chocolate maker. When you are lonely and fall asleep while answering alone, your favorite stuffed animals start to move. The stuffed toys are animals related to Ecuador, a famous production area of cacao in South America, such as sloths, toucans, and armadillos. It’s a slightly mysterious story about Rieko-chan and animals working together to create a magical gateau chocolate.
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【Product Summary】
Title: Guruguru Gateau Chocolat
Author: Kenji Ujiie (written) / Yumiko Miura (illustrated)
Publisher : Ken Elle Books
List price: 1,650 yen (tax included)
Release date: February 3, 2023
“Fun to watch, learn to read, and delicious to make” experience [Image 4
■ Awareness of onomatopoeia
Incorporating onomatopoeia such as “Guru Guru”, “Pakkan”, and “Toro Toro”, it is devised so that children can enjoy listening to it. ■ You can experience manufacturing
At the end of the book, there is a recipe for authentic gateau chocolate from Ken’s Cafe Tokyo, which is said to be the best in Japan, so after reading the book, you can actually experience making gateau chocolate.
The reason why the chef of the gateau chocolate specialty store publishes a picture book
I want to create a world without educational disparities through picture books. [Image 5
Chef Kenji Ujiie has always wanted to publish a picture book. One of the reasons for this was the growing disparity in education in Japan. Reading picture books is the first step toward developing language, expressiveness, and vocabulary. I wrote it with the hope that “Guru Guru Gateau Chocolat” will make you like books.
Even if you don’t have a sufficient educational environment, if you can read books filled with wisdom, you can open up your own future. This is a picture book filled with the author’s thoughts.
Profile of the author, Kenji Ujiie
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Born in Tokyo in 1968. Founder and owner chef of Ken’s Cafe Tokyo. In 1998, he opened “Ken’s Cafe Tokyo” in front of Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo. Launched Japan’s first gateau chocolate specialty store. Since 2015, he has been supervising sweets for FamilyMart Co., Ltd., and is also in charge of the development of “Ecuador Special”, a chocolate using high-quality cacao beans from Ecuador. His publications include “The reason why gateau chocolat for 3,000 yen each sells like hot cakes: How to create a system that sells even if the price is raised four times” (SB Creative, 2014), “Stop doing unnecessary things! –A chef’s amazing way to achieve annual sales of 300 million yen with gateau chocolat alone” (Shueisha, 2018).
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“After actually making the clothes, the clothes will get dirty, the clothes will smell, and the memories that come from the experience will remain. I’m happy.”
About “Ken’s Cafe Tokyo”
Ken’s Cafe Tokyo’s “Special Gateau Chocolat” has been selected as the “Japan Gift Award 2015 Tokyo Award”, “Tabelog Sweets TOKYO 100 Famous Stores”, “Entertainment Gift Selection 2019/2020 30 Special
Selections”, etc., and is the first in Japan. It is often introduced in the media as a gateau chocolate specialty store.
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[Store overview]
Store name: Ken’s Cafe Tokyo
Location: 1-23-3 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Date of establishment: June 16, 1998
TEL: 03-3354-6206
URL: https://kenscafe.jp
Details about this release:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000008.000010463.html
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