Mochi Water Cake Introduced In Japan
This water cake looks like a large bowl of jelly without the color, but its makers insist that it's cake. The strange dish is a variation of the well-known Japanese rice-cake confection, shingen mochi. Mochis are trademarked desserts, only created by the Kinseiken Seika Company. A regular type of shingen mochi is made from a particularly soft type of mochi rice cake, sprinkled with kinako soybean powder and eaten with brown sugar syrup. Traditionally, it is yellow in color, with a sticky and soft jelly-like consistency.
In its new form, the mochi is perfectly transparent, giving it a bit of a crystal-like appearance. It is made of water sourced from the Southern Japanese Alps, lightly sweetened, and solidified just enough to give it a definite shape. That’s why it’s called mizu (water) shingen mochi’, which according to the Kinseiken website, is so smooth that it melts in your mouth. It retains its shape for only 30 minutes before melting, so it needs to be consumed in the company’s shops and cannot be ordered ‘to go’.
