Japanese-style waffle shop Wafu set to open in Orlando. Here’s when, where to find it

ORLANDO, Fla. – East End Market’s latest tenant is having prepared to keep its grand opening Wednesday, serving up Japanese-type waffles and soft-serve ice cream to hungry clients.

Wafu is opening at 11 a.m. Wednesday on the next flooring of the meals hall and retail place in Orlando’s Audobon Park neighborhood, according to the business’s Fb site.

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Benjamin Paniagua and Zachary Allam started off the business as a pop-up and food truck in the Lakeland place. The pair is now getting around the location when occupied by Dochi, which sells Japanese-style mochi donuts.

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The pair experienced initially prepared on opening in May after having in excess of the lease on April 1 but seems to have been delayed.

Wafu serves taiyaki, a sweetened, Japanese cake geared up extremely likewise to a waffle. Wafu truly about translates to “Japanese-design and style.”

It is shaped like a fish — a sea bream precisely — and usually loaded with azuki bean paste, custard or chocolate, nevertheless there are also savory variations.

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“It commenced the place rich people in Japan at the time would consume this fish (sea bream) and on the streets (distributors) had been already making some thing related to taiyaki where by it had a waffle or pancake outside the house with a filling,” Paniagua claimed. “Someone arrived up with the strategy — pretty much like a marketing strategy — of making it glimpse like this fish — that indicates great fortune and that rich individuals would consume — and it took off in level of popularity about 100 yrs back. It is practically on each and every one block in Japan. It’s a staple.”

As section of the grand opening, Wafu will also be offering a minimal cherry blossom smooth-provide ice product for a limited time, in accordance to social media.

Wafu will be closed on Tuesdays. It will be open up from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, it will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.