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Mochi ice cream is a Japanese dessert made of a doughy pastry wrapped around an ice cream center. Wikipedia says the dough is usually pounded sticky rice, but it doesn't taste like it to me.



I usually like it, but I bought Trader Joe's non-dairy coconut milk mochi variety pack the other day and was greatly disappointed. Zu said I should have known from 'non-dairy' but I thought coconut milk would compensate. Anyway, the dough tasted like play-dough, and the ratio of dough to center was way off.

All in all, I like it: chocolate, mango, strawberry, green tea. Yum.

I've never had it, so I've still got an open mind.

HOOOMG, I'm a HUGE fan of mochi. :D

Alot of the frozen yogurt shops are offering it alongside fresh fruit and chocolate as toppings. When I go into yogurt shops, I always get the mochi as a topping. I've never had it prepared in the way you mention, though, Sarah.

My friend Carrie makes it from scratch. :)

Microwave mochi recipe:

HOW TO MAKE MICROWAVE MOCHI

Heidi wrote: "HOOOMG, I'm a HUGE fan of mochi. :D

Alot of the frozen yogurt shops are offering it alongside fresh fruit and chocolate as toppings. When I go into yogurt shops, I always get the mochi as a topp..."
Wait, I can't picture it as a topping. All of the mochi I've ever had has been slightly larger than a donut hole.

As a yogurt topping:

Another pic of mochi topping:

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It's pretty good with fresh strawberries. I also like it with fresh blueberries. It's about the size of miniature marshmallows.

Huh. I've never seen that before!
Also from wikipedia:
Small balls of ice cream are wrapped inside a mochi covering to make mochi ice cream. In Japan this is manufactured by the conglomerate Lotte under the name Yukimi Daifuku, "snow-viewing daifuku". In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry. Mikawaya, a Japanese-owned company operating in Los Angeles, manufactures the variety that is sold by Trader Joe's and Mollie Stone's. The New Central Market in Anchorage Alaska provides a variety of mochi and mochi ice cream products throughout Alaska. The Pinkberry, Yogen Fruz, Yogurtland and Red Mango frozen yogurt chains also offer mochi as standard topping on their desserts (with Red Mango offering it on their secret menu), available upon request from customers. International frozen yogurt chains that offer mochi as a topping include Indonesia's J.CO Donuts.

I found a pic of the yogurt with mochi and blueberries... NOM!

I'd try it but I don't think I'd like it because of the "doughy" description.

Red Mango's one of my fave yogurt stops, Sarah P.

Michael wrote: "I'd try it but I don't think I'd like it because of the "doughy" description."

Michael, just like fresh fruit gets crunchy/hard when it's frozen (and that'll happen to it when it's sitting in a cup with frozen yogurt or ice cream), mochi does, too. I'd describe it as being more chewy... like the consistency of a soft gummy bear.

i've never tried it, but when i come across it i will.

I've never had this. If I see it in the grocery store perhaps I'll give it a try.

I really like Mochi.

When I was in Japan, I used to find that vendors would make their own fresh ice cream and wrap it in rice wafers. That stuff was awesome.

I also really liked their versions of cream puffs. There was a store outside one of the train stations in Yokohama that would have loooooong lines of people waiting patiently to get these huge (like softball sized) cream puffs. Not sure what they did differently, but they were amazing.

Then again, there was this waffle cookie stuff I used to get a street fair that had melted chocolate inside...sigh.

I could eat my way through Japan just in desserts.

Every once in a while I'll have to grab Pocky from the grocery store now. Ours doesn't sell Mochi, so I'd have to go to an Asian market to get it.

What, exactly makes a Pocky a "Men's" Pocky, one wonders...

And is there a "Women's" Pocky, and if not, why NOT?!

I know the answer! Men's Pocky is dark chocolate. Cause you have to be manly to deal with the bitterness. I love Pocky.

Love mochi! I still buy it. It's best when it's stuffed with ice cream.

But I love most Japanese food. Men's Pocky rocks.

Hungry now...

Rachel wrote: "Hungry now..."

Were you being evil Willow on purpose? 'Cause I watched that episode this afternoon and she said it just like that.

Hahaha!!! Nope! Complete coincidence... or was it?

HOOOO-ly smokes! I just ran across this fabulousness:

moffles (or mochi waffles)



The Moffles Maker

That is bizarrely cool.

I want one.

I wouldn't even know where to get one!

Rachel wrote: "I wouldn't even know where to get one!"

I'll bet you can find it online and purchase it. :)

Haha! Perhaps when I find out what Mochi tastes like. :D

I had my first mochi ice cream ball today. It was a mini one... with green tea ice cream in the middle. It was about the size of a medium strawberry. Best of all, ithey're only 12 carbs for 3... so it was only 4 carbs. :) It was my first sweet in a long while and the last I'll need for a long while. My craving started with this thread and I thought it would never go away. It was good. Craving, gone.

Is mochi chewy or crunchy?

Definitely chewy. :) It's like it made ice cream hand holdable without interfering with the flavor or freezing and getting hard.

I just had a strawberry mochi. Is it supposed to be floury on the outside? My fingers were covered in messy flour as I ate it.

Lobstergirl wrote: "I just had a strawberry mochi. Is it supposed to be floury on the outside? My fingers were covered in messy flour as I ate it."

Yes it is. The flour keeps the dough from sticking to your fingers (and other stuff) while consuming.