Ichigo daifuku is a kind of Japanese confection consisting of a strawberry inside 'daifuku', which is a rice cake stuffed with sweet bean paste. We can buy it from December around May when strawberries are in season. Sweetness of bean jam matches the acidity of the strawberry well. when strawberries are in season.
This strawberry is length of around 5 centimeters. I bought this at Tomiokaya in Mishima city.
Hoshigaki is a kind of dried fruit made by drying Japanese persimmons. When I bark an astringent persimmon produced in autumn and air it outside for 1-2weeks, it is in sweet dried fruit. The surface becomes white by itself when it dries up. It is not covered with sugar. The taste is sweet of nature, it is very delicious. I like it.
Anmitsu is a kind of Japanese confectionery. Rice-flour dumpling and bean jam, a yellow peach, a mandarin orange, a cherry, a red pea on cubes of agar gelatin. It is eaten with syrup (molasses or dark molasses) poured over it.
I fonund it in Seven-Eleven.
Something like table tennis ball is a Rice-flour dumpling.It is silky and delisious.
It is a cubes of agar gelatin. Super delicious.
