Sophia Valentine Builds a Candy Festival Stall Before Breakfast
Using a do-it-yourself candy kit, the Nijisanji streamer made four festival sweets in about an hour and named the chocolate banana her favorite.
NIJISANJI — Sophia Valentine spent a Wednesday morning stream assembling a festival food stall out of a do-it-yourself candy kit, then ate the results on camera. The Nijisanji streamer, who opened the broadcast at 6 a.m. Japan time, said she wanted to start the day with sweets for breakfast and to wake her head up by using her hands.
The kit, called Tanoshii Omatsuri-ya-san (roughly “Fun Festival Stall”), makes candy from powders mixed with water, and she said it carried a difficulty rating of 4. After cutting the tray apart, she worked through an apple candy, a corn candy, shaved ice and a chocolate banana, reading the long instructions as she went. The corn proved the hardest: she struggled to get the granules to stick to the candy and later asked viewers to forgive the bare patches. She also said the shaved ice came out with less volume than she had hoped.
“This chocolate banana is seriously good, but it’s hard to describe. I’d like them to make just the chocolate banana.” — Sophia Valentine, after tasting her finished sweets
She finished at about the 56-minute mark and photographed the lineup for viewers. The chocolate banana won her over first, with a fluffy texture she compared to Tokyo Banana, a packaged banana sponge cake. The shaved ice, which she described as ramune soda blue Hawaii flavor, had a gritty, icy bite, and the apple candy set into a firm jelly from nothing more than powder and water. She noted that the chocolate banana also listed 54 milligrams of calcium.
The talk then drifted to curry, which she decided to have for breakfast, followed by morning meals, weather and clothing, getting lost with paper maps and car navigation, and what it would take to live to see the year 2100. She closed with “mission complete” and wished everyone a moderate effort for the day. Chat filled with end-of-stream thanks, and 19 Super Chats arrived, many from viewers heading to work.
Chat called the apple candy “really realistic” as the finished dishes appeared, and one message simply read “It’s an autumn festival.”
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.