About
Sweet Landing is a little escape on four wheels, built into a 90s Japanese kei truck, run out of New Hampshire and pointed at whatever's happening across NH and MA.
Our story
Dear you,
Sweet Landing opened in 1988 in Weymouth, Massachusetts: an ice cream counter and penny candy store, run by my mom, Susan. Rows of jars, a bell on the door, and a queue of kids counting pennies onto the counter every day after school.
She closed it in 1996 to raise my brother and me on her own.
Thirty years after the lights went out, I'm opening it again, with one detour. I've spent a lot of the time since then travelling, and I could never quite come home without the sweets. So the jars have gone international, the shop has wheels, and the counter is now the open side of a Japanese mini truck.
Same name.
Love, Gigi
Anyone with a sweet tooth
NH + MA
The truck
Kei trucks are a Japanese category built to a legal size limit: a tiny footprint with full-size usefulness. Ours is Sweetie, a 1997 Subaru Sambar Classic, imported straight from Japan in July 2026 and turned into a shop that opens along the sides of the bed.
The size is the whole point. Five feet wide, six feet tall: it parks in a single space, slips through gates a full-size food truck can't, and looks like something worth photographing before anybody has bought a thing.
She landed silver and we painted her red. A welder built us a solid, aerodynamic shelving unit designed to keep the engine in the bed reachable, we made a canvas awning to match the one over the original Sweet Landing, and we cut shelves that hold our candy bins exactly. Then we spent forever learning to drive a right-hand-drive stick shift, and off we went.
The build
The truck didn't arrive looking like this. Here's roughly how it got here.
We found her in Japan and brought her over in July 2026: a 1997 Subaru Sambar Classic, still wearing her original silver.
The silver went. Red took its place, because a candy shop should be visible from the far side of a field.
A welder built a solid, aerodynamic shelving unit into the bed, designed around the engine underneath so we can still get at it.
We made the canvas awning ourselves to match the one over the original Sweet Landing, and cut the shelves to fit our candy bins exactly.
Which took forever. Everything is on the wrong side and the gearbox has opinions. We got there.
Health department permits, a long argument with the car insurer, and a lot of time spent finding wholesale candy partners.
The basics
We're based in New Hampshire and travel across NH and MA, all year round. The truck runs public popups most weekends and takes private bookings year-round for weddings, showers, birthdays, corporate days and anything else that could stand to be sweeter.
Everything goes out in 2–3 oz taster bags, packed by hand before each event and labelled with what's inside. Every guest takes three, over a third of a pound of candy in all, so they try a few different things instead of picking one.
The sweets
Most candy is a solved problem. You already know what's in the checkout aisle, and so does everyone at your party.
What we chase is what people are actually asking for. If a sweet is going round online this month (the one everybody's filming, the one your kids won't stop bringing up), there's a good chance it's already on the truck. And if it isn't, tell us at the truck and we'll go looking.
We buy wherever we land: trips, importers, and the occasional suitcase that came home a good deal heavier than it left. The shelves keep moving.
Come find us
We're out most weekends, or we'll come to you and bring the escape along.
