{"id":258,"date":"2004-08-28T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-08-14T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:41:50","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-yomogi-daifuku-mochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Yomogi Daifuku Mochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yomogi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/Yomogi.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThese are the green kind of rice cakes and yes, they are the same family of rice cakes that TheMan utterly loathes.  Green rice cakes are similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/141.214.84.74\/~jeannie\/archives\/000472.html\">Azuki Rice Cakes<\/a>  but with the addition of <a href=http:\/\/www.botanical.com\/botanical\/mgmh\/m\/mugwor61.html>mugwort.<\/a>  (Your welcome).  Like the Azuki, the outside is kind of squidgy in a firm but giving way.  The Yomogi was a tad bit squidgier and almost felt like firm foam.  They also had more powder on them, much to the dismay of my powerbook.  Yeah, I&#8217;m going to be dusting off rice flour for a while yet to come, me thinks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YomogiCloseUp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/YomogiCloseUp.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n(You can almost see the mudgieness and the powder!  Oi, the powder)<\/p>\n<p>The Mugwort Rice Cakes have a bean paste filling but it doesn&#8217;t seem as sweet to me and the texture was a bit more gritty.  The rice cakes also have a quasi green tea flavor that lurks about, but it&#8217;s not incredibly strong.  More of an after flavor, something that gets caught in your sinuses if you will.  I was on my second rice cake before I could pin down the flavor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not as fond of the Yomogi as I was the Azuki but I&#8217;m not fond of green tea.   Or mugwart, I expect.  Maybe I just don&#8217;t like the taste of green, whatever the flavor.  On that note, I&#8217;m going to give Yomogi Daifuku Mochi a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\">Rating<\/a> of <b>2.5 Wasabi Peas<\/b> out of a possible 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25-peas","category-mochi","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}