Admit it, the Tita in you always makes a beeline for the home section in department stores and a visit to Daiso Japan stores always leaves you with tons of paper bags that you filled with cute little gadgets that you convinced yourself to buy just because you think you need them. You can’t help it because they are so kawaii and the P88 price range makes the buys all worth it.
Since it’s almost impossible to stop you from hoarding things, here are a few clever kitchen item suggestions for your next visit to any Daiso Japan stores:
1. Silicone Egg Holder – It can be really messy when you’re trying to poach a perfect egg but with this Silicone Egg Holder, you can feel secure that the egg whites will not be floating everywhere.
2. Egg Timer – For that perfectly boiled egg, this cute egg timer isn’t just an eye candy, it’s also very functional as the color changes to signal soft, medium, or hard, to let you know when it’s time to scoop that egg out of the boiling pan.
3. Onion Shredder and Peeler– Even culinary experts would say you can never have too many greens on your food, and the perfect topper for salads, soups and noodles are onion leeks and spring onions. But it can get messy shredding them up especially if you’re making large batches. With Daiso’s Onion Shredder and Peeler, you can shred greens as much as you need in a shorter span of time compared to using a plain knife.
4. Silicone Garlic Peeler – You always pass by this cute little gadget and never really understood how to use it. Well, if you’re always complaining that your hands smell of garlic after peeling them for your fried rice in the morning, this is the perfect little helper. Put a single garlic clove inside the soft silicone tube and just roll it in, and you end up with peeled little garlic cloves.
5. Mango Cutter – This one works like an apple core slicer. Just put your mango in the center, slide it, and you can easily get three parts – the two mango cheeks and the seed on the center.
6. Tomato Slicer – Remember that boiled egg slicer you used to play with in the kitchen as a kid? It kinda works like that, and this one makes perfect circle slices of tomatoes for your salads and sandwiches.
7. Banana Slicer – One-stop banana slicer to use when you’re preparing for your brekkie with oatmeal or sliced bananas to pair in any of your powerfoods. Just put the banana at the bottom of the slicer, press it down and you’ll get slices of banana with a nice little zigzag design.
8. Dumpling Maker – It looks like that funny little teeth toy that you’d wind up as a kid. Use it to make perfectly folded dumplings or if you’re a little creative, you can make tiny empanaditas with it. You need not use a fork anymore to lock the sides of your pastry as this clever little gadget does the sealing on the side.
9. Easy Rice Washer – Washing rice can get messy and sometimes you end up spilling grains of rice on the sink. Using this Easy Rice Washer strains rice and prevents spilling those precious grains, so you can concentrate on just running the water and rinsing the rice. Good thing about this gadget is that you can use it for any grain rinsing including multiple grains, seeds or beans.
Daiso Japan is one of the retail formats operated by Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. It has 49 authorized stores in the country and today, you can also visit the recently opened store in Robinsons Townville Regalado, Fairview for other home needs and kitchen tools. To know more about Daiso Japan Philippines, visit DaisoJapanPH Facebook and @DaisoJapanPH on Twitter and @daisophilippines on Instagram.