The Japanese are always looking to impress. Whether it’s with their cuisine, their advanced robotics, legendary punctuality, service, and efficiency, they always seem to make the news throughout the year for some well-deserved reason. In today’s instance, it involves a truly surreal desert that feels almost otherworldly.
What looks like a preserved drop of water is actually a rice cake dessert called ‘shingen mochi’. It can supposedly disintegrate after just 30 minutes, so don’t take too much time eating it. Delicious, cool, tasty, and refreshing, shingen mochi melts in your mouth. Some claim it’s what consuming a delicate water balloon would feel like!
金精軒の水信玄餅。最近流行りの水ゼリーにきな粉と黒蜜。これがなかなか美味しい。きな粉の粉っぽさが浮くかと思ったら全然そんなこと無かった。 pic.twitter.com/vS9rdpatOY
— きょうこ (@bonabona999) September 15, 2013
Here’s the new Japanese water cake that will debut at #Smorgasburg: https://t.co/MTJJ6PIzoI pic.twitter.com/qgrNTSjaon
— Grub Street (@grubstreet) April 1, 2016
透明でぷるぷる～北杜市の和菓子屋金精軒の「水信玄餅」です。自然な甘みがある甲斐駒ケ岳の伏流水で作ったゼリー。これにコクのある黄粉と黒蜜をかけてツルっと頂くと、ほんとに不思議なおいしさです！ pic.twitter.com/GmkvZsWLr5
— 三浦実夏 （山梨放送アナウンサー） (@berry_summer) May 28, 2014
Below is the recipe:
