I tried to make Konpeitō, candy from 460 years ago

[@vivmidori]

Great to see you, Rie-san! ^^ I find it very interesting how we can find Portuguese words in Japanese cuisine. Growing up in Brazil, I used to think that my Japanese grandparents were just 'japanizing' Portuguese words like 'pan' (pão) and 'conpeito' (confeito) haha but no, Japanese really did incorporate those words into their vocabulary!

[@RieMcClenny]

Thank you for watching 😊It's so interesting to discover that we have a lot of Portuguese-influenced items! I didn't know konpeitō was one of them until I made this video!

[@videowatcher6246]

Don't forget tempura.

[@wnmaisarah]

i was recently curious on the naming of persimmons in my language (malay) bc its called pisang kaki which literally translates to foot banana but i saw caqui is also used in portuguese (cmiiw) and kaki from japanese!

[@franziskathiel4669]

Oh I thought the only portugese or spanish word in japan is Kasutera (Castella). The word confeito sounds so latin that I think about it as a general european word for sweets 😅

[@vivmidori]

Although some words might sound like they could've come from any Latin based European language, they were first introduced to the Japanese by the Portuguese. ☺ You can find a very extensive list of words here on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin

[@willcookmakeup]

Omg its the spirited away candy for the dust spirits!

[@fnjesusfreak]

They're also a plot point in the Sailor Moon S movie. I think the 2000 dub called them "sugar stars".

[@Piikaachuu1203]

They were also in the Pokemon anime

[@Charlie59876]

and starbits

[@eternalelipsis]

And hamtaro 🥹

[@willcookmakeup]

@@eternalelipsis omg Hamtaro! What a throwback

[@crimsoncoffin7408]

I miss her so much!!! Im glad she seems to be doing well. Make it fancy 🫰 💫

[@pastel.persephone5879]

If it was brought over by the Portuguese, then the word may be derived from the Portuguese confeito (confection in English). In the West its a word that describes any sugary treat. Its fascinating how much of my native language has become a normal part of a conutry thats so far away and a culture thats so vastly different from mine.

[@willowsprite]

I love konpeito and have tried to look up a recipe but couldn’t find one anywhere. Thanks for this video!

[@rebeccaanne9863]

Interesting since confietos is the plural of confete which is the Portuguese word for the Italian confetto meaning ‘sweet meat’ in Italian the plural being ‘confetti’, which English borrowed directly. Italians would throw small colorful candies (confetti) to children at parades and festivals and the concept soon caught on in the rest of Europe and is now a world wide practice. Now I wonder how confetti went from being candy to being paper.

[@SilvaDreams]

​@@rebeccaanne9863 People still toss candy at parades but it was likely a recent change (turn of the 20th century) once paper was being mass produces and thus it's cost was drastically reduced. THe paper was likely easier to clean up and a lot cheaper to just toss around

[@rebeccaanne9863]

@@SilvaDreams true, but I still wonder when the change happened in English and some other languages that changed confetti from meaning the candy thrown at celebrations to meaning tiny bits of colorful paper meant to be tossed at a celebration.

[@fluffysheepfallingasleep609]

In Norway, we have the word "konfekt", but it is mostly used for chocolates (the fancy, often filled, little chocolates in a fancy box)

[@willowsprite]

I love konpeito and have tried to look up a recipe but couldn’t find one anywhere. Thanks for this video!

[@emmyali920]

Oh my goodness Rie! Your baby photos are sooo cute!! What an adorable little girl you were... ❤❤❤

[@sihanchang]

wow as always Rie is so patient! the homemade candy looks beautiful 🩷

[@briannawalker4793]

Oh nooooo they're so cute 🥹🥹 I always wondered how they were made, thank you for sharing! Amazing how the candy process takes something as simple as sugar and ✨️makes it fancy🫰✨️

[@mimo93maminon]

I lived in Ibaraki for a while, so I got to try many seasonal Japanese sweets and snacks. I liked konpeitō, but my favorite was Hina Arare. I'm only familiar with the Kanto version. I hope to try other versions next time I go back to Japan during that time of the year

[@ryliebell4892]

You are one of my favorite chefs and I look up to you so much! I can't wait to try another wonderful recipes with your help!!

[@AlexTakemori]

Oohh I've always been interested in making these! Thanks for the video

[@robylove9190]

It's wonderful to see you, Rie. I have really missed you ❣️

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The Konpenitō plate looked fab 👏🏽

[@taylorhillard4868]

I feel like you might have been able to do it a bit faster if you had a separate pot of simple sugar already up to temp, and ladle it onto the cores directly from the heated pot. Youd need a candy thermometer to keep it the right temperature but it would get rid of the time spent heating up each ladle of syrup every time.

[@maylin2734]

Always a great pleasure to watch your videos, we missed you 🫶

[@gr33ngirlsea]

What a great promo tie-in! Great partnership choice FX!

[@leventhumps3861]

I often think about the brave brave man that first decided to eat really fermented foods like 100 year eggs, or stinky tofu. Heck even something like yogurt.

[@alextorchia2289]

I always enjoy seeing Rie and her Japanese cuisine makes it even better! :)

[@jessicafewer]

Miss you Rie!! Please keep making videos! I’m so sad Tasty isn’t doing long form content! You were my favourite anyways.

[@marvelholt21]

I grew up always wanting to try konpeito, and finally got to when my partner and i found some in a shop. They really liked them, and so now i get them for my partner for special occasions.

[@rebel.taylord]

Got a few bags of this candy from a small mom and pop shop in Kyoto. This candy so pretty and everyone I've given it to likes how pretty it looks lol! As a candy not my favorite but it truly is lovely to look at 😍

[@elsievega6191]

I've read the book and looking forward to the series. Also if you can't do it and you are an amazing cook, there is no hope for me lol

[@michikomanalang6733]

“This is good for streaming. Like… just watch me suffer.” RIE 😂

[@deathseeker754]

These are my favorite candy!!! Absolutely perfect for satisfying a sweet tooth.

[@lunytune3374]

I'm totally trying this!❤

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Konpeitō reminds me of our Nokuldana which is not flavoured but is a big ball of sugar.

[@vastoaspecto]

1:00 Nowadays "confeito" word is less used in most portuguese based countries, but some parts of Brazil continues using, including me 😀 But in portuguese, "confeito" means a wrapped sweet with a harder shape, made to melt in the mouth.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:58 Reminds me of Tamagoyaki with the repetition of an ingredient

[@PokhrajRoy.]

4:33 Omg imagining you in your Twitch Era. You’d be brilliant

[@monhi64]

Woah these look so much like a real life version of the super Mario Galaxy star bits

[@Godzilla5675]

Now we can taste what lumas eat

[@bobbyrdz09]

Yay!!!! I missed your videos

[@RieMcClenny]

Thank you 🥰

[@CymruLlewes]

Ah, like making candied peanuts. But much smaller with sesame seed as a core.

[@koirvne]

It's always a good day to see Rie on my feed

[@hizurumegumi5727]

Being honest, just from a historical standpoint the sengoku jidai and alot of historical Japanese politics can be very interesting

[@red-fq8zf]

This candy are very common in India , we offer these to gods as prasad and these are commonly calld as nakuldana or elaichidana and are really cheap. You can only find the white ones , flavoured ones are not found here

[@SandyDiVa]

Just subbed, this was fascinating!

[@lindacsmith13]

Wow, you really stuck with that! Interesting but I bet not too many people will want to try it 🤣🤣🤣 You were a very cute little girl, love your videos.

[@RieMcClenny]

I also thought, 'What did I sign up for?'"😅

[@gamingwhilebroken2355]

I think the, “why did the first person eat X thing,” the answer is probably that they were just desperate and very hungry.

[@Jenelleyizzle]

Would you be able to do an episode or talk about this thin crunch curved half dipped in chocolate cookie from Kyoto I tried it 20+ years ago when I was a kid when my aunt brought it as a souvenir and I treasured each piece in its little tin until I finished it then recently I visited Japan and found out it is izutsu yatsuhashi and brought a box home of the traditional cinnamon ones.

[@Trund27]

Wonderful video, but the music is much too loud. I want to hear Rie explain her process!

[@hera7884]

Making candy IS hard. It’s the hardest thing to cook for me, it’s hot and it’s so sensitive to so many different things.

[@ClorkBens]

Star bits from Super Mario Galaxy series was based on this cute candy.

[@Healingwand]

We have this sorta sugar in india given in temples 😅 this is nostalgic.

[@des3511]

I THINK I HAVE SEEN THIS IN SPIRITED AWAY

[@celestegrey]

It is the candy the soot sprites eat in spirited away!!

[@RedHotUzumaki]

They look like mini fireworks, I have a candy dish filled with individual wrapped bags of konpeito They are my favorite candy 🥰

[@techh8662]

"do we need a microscope?" i felt that... 😭😭😭

[@avin9573]

This looks like a sugar candy we get in temple as prasad in Nepal. Its only white and sweet though.

[@LucasSCarcavilla]

I guess the portuguese word for little sweets , "confeito", confetti in italian, came from these konpeitő

[@MartinDerTolle]

I remember collecting these in Super Mario Galaxy

[@rosethecat2930]

ooooh they look just like the candy from bee and puppycat!

[@sto-humanfriendly]

When I googled konpeito, i read it takes over a week to make

[@drivethrupoet]

a handful or two of those when made with poppy seeds might have been more than a sugar buzz

[@Tsusagi]

4:38 bristle is the word I think you’re looking for

[@mfuentes4961]

The konpeitō looks so yummy!😍 I wish I could be a soot sprite after watching this lol 😂

[@keeliparker5990]

"just like... watch me suffer" LMAO

[@MastaRhee]

Just saw a documentary vid of a factory making them. They use glutinous rice powder instead of the rock sugar. Also it takes 2 weeks! 😵‍💫

[@Godzilla5675]

They look like starbits from mario Galaxy

[@greysfreak1992]

I love that candy!!

[@gardengalsu]

Konpeitō looks like some thorns that we have in Hawaii, so that is what my aunty would call them. Maybe they're even the inspiration for Velcro?!?

[@eunicerodrigues1500]

Called Tilgul in India (Goa and Maharashtra) :))

[@_devilsailor_]

these are my favourite!!

[@Scanda10]

Hi!! nice to see you agaian!

[@Inklett13]

Ive had these once! I havnt been able to find them since then tho 😫

[@TheSingapuraCat]

They have flavours? I tried the ones from Muji, all taste sugar.

[@dondee4495]

Great video! I have konpeito in my tattoo

[@AbdriMoon]

Bristles?!

[@brianb9824]

It good see you again.

[@lovenature8704]

コンペイトウ懐かしい😊

[@mathewritchie]

The real question is not who looked at a sea urchin and asked is that going to taste good?The real question is who looked at an oyster and said that looks like food,were they drunk? Was it a dare?

[@josnadessai1311]

Any Indian here who thinks this looks like tilgul? Or maybe is tilgul?

[@MongoosePreservationSociety]

Rie is the GOAT

[@3lttlbrds]

Rie❤

[@jml4774]

Miss you! How is Hugo???

[@RieMcClenny]

He is almost 4 😳

[@scottsummers4234]

Is it really worth it for the time to make that? It just tastes like sugar 😂

[@MegaZeta]

ok

[@TinyMaster0fEviI]

RIE :D

[@itsbellebellebitchcosmetics]

omg i loved this candy on hamtaro!!

[@hypersapien]

I love the tone-shift of watching a bunch of samurai fighting, to tiny flowery candies

[@mushnoodle]

I was also curious how to make these at home but when i saw how they actually get made i just gave up 😂 yours are def the closest it can get without special machinery! In fact a few years ago i couldnt even find proper youtube videos on how they were made only relatively recently did i find a few…

[@Celleslie]

I love the experiment-vibes of this video. It was a roller coaster just following through Rie’s mixed emotions of “can i do it?” is it over yet?” “Ok good enough” 😂

[@Younggmetro]

I was just watching a bunch of your videos, love the content and love your energy♡

[@octogonSmuggler]

This candy tastes like nothing even though it's so colorful and I feel lied to.

[@tpkyterooluebeck9224]

I recommend having a thicker sugar syrup concentration where you have more sugar in that water then the amount used. A 3 to 1 sugar to water ratio, does help in making rock candy crystals, and the thought is that it would help here also, in making konpeitoo. I've not tested this though.

[@FXNetworks]

Perfect snacks for the premiere 🤩

[@anangrylittlesliceofpie1413]

they're so cute! are those the little star candies that susuwatari eat?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

So happy to see a new upload on the channel. Hope you’re doing well!

[@RieMcClenny]

Thank you! I should make more videos for KZbin! You guys are the best 🥰

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@RieMcClenny Both you and us subscribers give off good energy so we’re all the best lol

[@sophieb-m1472]

I loved the Richard Chamberlain version of Shogun

[@Chrissydarlin82]

If you liked Shogun, you should try Centennial. It also has Chamberlain in it. One of my all time fav movies!

[@hanaeyoshida5163]

Love the food and Japanese history crossover!!!

[@luminariel3765]

For hard candies, you need candy oils, otherwise you have to flavor all the syrup. I feel like if you had given yourself more time, they would have been perfect! If you started with colored syrup, i get you would get a very rich, bright color

[@cupcakelikes]

I remember eating those candies as a child.

[@clearlyrebecca]

Wait. Are these what Kamaji gave to the susuwatari in Spirited Away????

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Btw Uncle Roger reacted to a video with you in it and I’ve started a prayer circle that you two do a collab. It’ll be fun!

[@CLOWN_PRINCE1939]

Omg I want to try this candy so bad it looks so good 😭❤️

[@PokhrajRoy.]

2:39 She Rie-ly said: “People have a lot of free time. I don’t.”

[@amberlee4536]

I mostly wonder who was the first person to use milk, because you gotta be a special kind of hungry to look at a goat or a cow and say "maybe I can drink baby food for a bovine" for the first time

[@drivethrupoet]

I think about this all the time lol but more about cooking the things. Like did they accidentally drop stuff into a fire they first built for warmth?

[@theinquisitivecritter]

@@drivethrupoetnot as interesting as who was the first person to discover other animal milk was safe for humans😂😂

[@drivethrupoet]

@@theinquisitivecritter we nurse our own babies and they were watching animals nurse theirs

[@theinquisitivecritter]

@@drivethrupoet well no duh but still

[@andrewbobat]

I wanna try this with nuts

[@billymoss2239]

Missed your videos!

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

I'm not sure about traditionally but in modern candy, Flavouring is Usualy added off the heat as it's an essential oil and has a low boiling/evaporation point. But they looked great! Definitely something for the kid's to enjoy! Maybe try adding a touch of peppermint oil and citric acid! 🎉 🎆

[@KalowJager]

The shape of the store bought Konpeito reminds me of the rock sugar candy on a stick (I've most often seen in gift shops and specialty candy stores). The process of making them is quite different though!

[@CharmEng89]

haha! this was a really cute and informative video. I always felt konpeito is a simple and boring candy. I have a lot more respect now that I know how they are made. It's probably something you'll do once for fun... then not do again :p

[@yagomaligne]

I used to eat this in Spain 25 years ago. my grandma gave them to me