{"id":528,"date":"2008-04-12T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T05:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=528"},"modified":"2008-04-12T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T01:51:33","slug":"maeda-en-mochi-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Maeda-en Mochi (strawberry)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nAhhh ice cream. I went shopping today (yes, I actually am<\/b> posting a JSFR on time!) and thought about getting some ice cream for nomming on, seeings as it’s been pretty nice out lately. But the grown-up part of my brain convinced me that I didn’t really need<\/i> any ice cream and blah blah responsibility cakes so I passed the Ben and Jerry’s right by. But then, when I was wooshing by the Japanese freezer section, I spied these fellas. Maena-en makes strawberry mochi now? Well pop that puppy in the basket. After all, it’s for science!<\/p>\n

And so I did. What I hadn’t realized, until I got back and started poking through the JSFR archives, is that I’ve only ever done one Maeda-en mochi. Buh? I could have sworn I had two if not more up there but no. So it seems I’ve been doing a disservice to Maeda-en mochi and primarily focusing on Mikawaya mochi. Not that I blame me, Mikawaya mochi wrocks. Yo.<\/p>\n

I’m kind of a fan of the keen boxed presentation of Mikawaya mochi because it makes it seem more posh. The plastic wrapped Maeda-en feels a little bottom end but packaging doesn’t make a whole lot of difference in terms of taste. And taste is what it’s mostly about.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t exactly overjoyed by the vanilla<\/a> Maeda-en but the strawberry is a bit better. It’s got a nice soft pink strawberry flavored rice wrapper (yum!) and inside a blobbit of strawberry ice cream. There are even little bits in the ice cream which very well may be strawberry. Or at least strawberry seeds. Whatever, it’s decently tasty in a middle of the road strawberry ice cream sort of way. I’m going to give it the same rating as the Mikawaya if only because Maeda-en is less strawberry shake and more strawberry ice cream. <\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3.5 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of a possible 5 wasabi peas.<\/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":[11,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-mochi","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}