Mochi Fiesta!
Filed Under (Cakes and Pastries, Food in Japan, Japanese Cuisine, Snacks and Tit Bits) by kuanfoodfetish on 20-07-2010
Tagged Under : cake, daifuku, fillings, flavor, glutinous rice, green tea, ichigo, japan, maccha, milk, mochi, snacks, strawberry, watermelon
The sis came back from another stop in Japan which means i am featuring something all the way from the land of the rising sun this time.
What’s better is today’s post is all about one of my favorite snacks, mochi!
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into shape. There are several types of mochi but here i am introducing 3 types of daifuku which is a soft round mochi stuffed with sweet filling the most common being the red bean paste.
First is the Watermelon (suika) Mochi.
Ok, i don’t think this is a mochi but i have no idea what to call this Japanese brand snack so i’m grouping it together with the rest of them. LOL.
But oh, it’s the cutest thing.
It has watermelon green prints and shaped like a flattened watermelon. Almost too cute to be eaten!
The outer layer’s texture is like cake/brownies with purple jam-like fillings in the middle.
The fillings is of course watermelon flavored which i find kind of weird. Overall, it’s not bad but i didn’t like it because it was rather too sweet.
Too bad.
Next up is the Ichigo (strawberry) Milk Mochi.
But mind you this mochi does not contain a whole strawberry inside which i much prefer… although the packaging suggest otherwise.
Instead, nestled within the box are 10 pieces of pinkish rice balls and within the rice balls are white cream textured milk fillings.
Although there’s no strawberry inside the mochi, the mochi’s skin are strawberry flavored. The mochi is sweet and milky at the same time. Almost like having strawberry ice cream.
I liked it but preferred a less sweet version of it.
And finally, here comes the Maccha (green tea) Chocolate Daifuku (mochi). This in fact is my favorite of all.
This box contains i think around 35 pieces of green tea mochi (i’m not sure coz i forgot to count 
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I love this maccha flavored mochi because it’s not too sweet and has a milky taste to it similar to the strawberry mochi.
I have no idea why it says “maccha chocolate” on the packaging because i don’t see any chocolate anywhere. Within the green tea flavored mochi is some white milk cream. The texture of this mochi is very soft and definitely smoother than the other 2 type of mochi mentioned earlier on.
Yum!
. The cappuccino cream inside was too sweet too. As for the pieces of dark chocolate on top of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate flavor didn’t exactly go well with the doughnut. It was again too sweet and weird. Fortunately we had enough sense not to buy a whole dozen.
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