This one is a true Japanese sweets flavour. Matcha, we all know is that green tea with a slightly bitter profile that goes so well in sweets, especially creamy ice cream and in milk teas. Warabi mochi may be a little lesser known. It's a soft, sticky dumpling similar to the rice mochi but instead of rice, it is made from the starch of the roots of the warabi plant (bracken fern). As such, instead of being pure white, it is clear and shiny after being heated and cooled.
The matcha chocolate has a subtle sweetness, and a nice amount of bitter aftertaste. The jelly inside is unlike warabi mochi, firm, but after chewing it more, starts to have the stickiness and texture of real warabi mochi. The filling has the mild flavour of adzuki (red bean) paste, with the same amount of sweetness as the outer coating. The chocolate part also tastes like it might have red bean paste mixed in with it.
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