mochi sweets!!

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i love japanese food, especially when it's the garlic rice, chawa mushi, miso soup and salmon teriyaki combo. but i was not much of a japanese dessert person. never actually took the liberty to learn nor try, except for the green tea with red beans ice cream that is. also some other japanese ice cream (kukerikan or something like that) from MOF (where has it moved to by the way? i couldn't find it at Pavillion last two weekends). :(

so when my friend annie suggested that we try mochi sweets, i wasn't entirely sure but pretty game about it. i mean, she described it as cold chewy pau. okay, doesn't sound tempting but when we got to the kiosk, i couldn't help being attracted to the array of mochis sold there!! i think i did try mini versions of this in my ice cream at MOF!! but the ones sold here are bigger, fatter, rounder... i've got to try it!!

and tried i did. i bought only two mochis though - mango filling and red been paste. annie got herself the green tea one. we were told to only consume our mochies after 30 minutes or so because it's currently frozen, so we needed to that it for a bit.

so, me being me... i couldn't wait 30 minutes. not when the mochis were practically calling out to me from its bag... "eat me! eat me!!"... i think it was already closed to half an hour anyways. or maybe it was just 15 minutes but i just couldn't resist taking a bite and and when i tried the mango one, OMG... it was absolutely yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel like kissing the steering wheel there and then (no relation, i know)... it was lovely. it had a bit of the sorbet tasts and really creamy inside. and the chewy mochi skin makes it an awesome combo!! same goes for the red bean one. wasn't disappointing at all. i just had to bbm annie asking if she's had hers (which she obviously hadn't, being the very rule obliging girl that is)... :p she actually waited 30 minutes okay... but when she did she went OMG too... so we came to our very own conclusion that yes, these mochis were seriously damn good!! :D

i love mochi now. and i plan to get myself half a dozen mochis today. no, i don't plan to share it with anyone. probably with ian cause he's my son after all. :P

if you do plan to get yourself some mochis, you can either go to the old but newly renovated wing at One Utama or you can just head to tokyo street pavillion (6th floor i think) or the gardens. and for us muslims, don't worry about any gelatine ingredients or it not being halal because they do not use any form or animal extract / gelatine etc etc, everything is vegetables based. YAY!

so happy mochi-ing people!!!!!

omm nomm nomm noommm... :)