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\n(The small darker tan dot on the top is my finger print and not some special feature of this mochi…unless the special feature is that the mochi will melt a finger like spot if you hold it overly long)<\/p>\n
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\n(The small darker tan dot on the top is my finger print and not some special feature of this mochi…unless the special feature is that the mochi will melt a finger like spot if you hold it overly long)<\/p>\n
Whew! I was almost afraid to try these because of the downward rating trend and the fact that I don’t really like coffee ice cream. But I had picked up the coffee mochi at the same time as I picked up the vanilla mochi<\/a> (because they didn’t have chocolate chocolate so I figured coffee was the next best thing. Which makes no sense if I don’t particularly care for coffee ice cream but since when did things have to make sense at the JSFR? Perfect!), and lo! Coffee Mochi has the beans to break the trend.<\/p>\n I’m not saying I loved it, because I still don’t much care for coffee ice cream, but I appreciated the ice cream’s coffeeness. It had a definite coffee flavor tempered with an ice creamy smoothness and just a hint of bitter coffee bite. I’d say that if you turned an unsweetened cappuccino into a ball of rice paste wrapped ice cream you would totally have Mikawaya Mochi (coffee). It was no chocolate chocolate (which I can not seem to find anywhere, much to my sadness) but it brought the coffee and had a decent ice cream base to boot.<\/p>\n Plus, the wrapper was also a nice light tan color and coffee flavored. I love that about Mikawaya mochi. I was fortunate to have a coffee ice cream lover as a Guinea Pig and when I asked her what she would rate these she decided without hesitation that she would give Mikawaya mochi (coffee) a good solid 4 pea rating. Me? I’d say that on a personal level, 4 peas is a bit much. On a JSFR level the coffee mochi’s ice cream was every bit as good if not a titch better than the strawberry<\/a> mochi’s ice cream and coffee mochi stayed true to its flavor. The strawberry wound up with a 3.5 pea rating, being docked a half pea point for tasting more like a strawberry shake than strawberry ice cream, so I really have no professional quibbles with granting Mikawaya mochi (coffee) a much deserved<\/p>\n