{"id":394,"date":"2007-03-10T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:12:30","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-mikawaya-mochi-vanilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Mikawaya Mochi (vanilla)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI need to stop reviewing Mikawaya mochi because there is a disturbing downward rating trend forming and there are three more flavors left! Way back in ought five I picked up a package of Mikawaya Chocolate chocolate mochi<\/a> and it was to die for! If it weren’t for my aversion to the texturally odd rice pastry wrapper than Chocolate chocolate mochi would have certainly 5 pea pointed, no questions asked. Then in ought six, I picked up Strawberry mochi<\/a> by the same company and was rather disappointed in its lack of fantastic strawberrines of ice creamage. Now I have vanilla and…well…lemmie tell you a story.<\/p>\n

Way back a bazillion years ago, BASF had an ad campaign<\/a> which went something like this: “We don’t make the [jacket\/notebook\/skateboard\/air craft\/whatever], we make the [jacket\/notebook\/skateboard\/air craft\/whatever] better”. Which, they don’t and they do since they aren’t a finished product manufacturer but a materials supplier. More or less. Now if Vanilla had an ad campaign, it could adopt the same concept and go with “I don’t make the flavor, I make the flavor better” because really? Have you actually ever eaten anything and thought to yourself “My, but this is an exquisite<\/em> vanilla” or “They sure did get vanilla right in this!” My guess is no (unless you are chugging pure vanilla, in which case I have to ask…what’s wrong with you? Brandy will get you twice the buzz and tastes better).<\/p>\n

Which makes vanilla both a deviously subtle thing and a mundane boring thing. I can see you vanilla lovers out there going “Whaaaaaaat!!!” but hear me out. The world is full of wonderful tasty flavors, most of which (and I say this because I haven’t had them all) can probably be enhanced by adding a little bit of vanilla. Maybe not meat (although I’ve never tried it), but certainly any sweetie thing can stand a touch of vanilla and become a much tastier sweetie thing. Vanilla on its lonesome though is just vanilla, which you can’t really add a dash of to itself to make itself taste more…like itself. I think just I hurt something with that line of thought.<\/p>\n

So if you are going to offer me a vanilla something, your vanilla has got to be outstanding because already I can think of a thousand other flavors which would be much more interesting. Why should I choose a vanilla mochi when there is strawberry, green tea (oh like you didn’t think of it already) and chocolate chocolate? It’s not like I’m going to be having a peanut butter mochi sundae (in which case yes vanilla, dear god no strawberry) so wow me.<\/p>\n

Which…this mochi didn’t. I’d say that it was better than the Maeda-en vanilla mochi<\/a> by half a pea or so but the Mikawaya vanilla was more store brand ice cream than King or Earl of ice cream. I don’t know if I can say that the Mikawaya vanilla even made it to royalty but it is a darned fine average ice cream. In accordance, I’ll give Mikawaya a darned fine average<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of 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":[10,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-peas","category-mochi","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}