Haagen Daaz: Sunda Mochi

Zunda mochi is mochi that is covered in a sweet edamame bean paste. The way that I've mostly seen it done is with a mochi that is made from lightly pounding the mochi rice, leaving parts of the grains intact such as in ohagi (where the mochi is covered with a red bean paste). It can be done with regular mochi as well though. Haagen Dazs has taken the components of zunda mochi to make it an ice cream flavour.

Upon opening the small cup, you see a blob of mochi with a zunda paste topping covering it. This ice cream is layered with the mochi on top, the ice cream underneath with thin layers of zunda paste running through it as well. The mochi was chewy and had a flavour much like real mochi except sweeter and melts in the mouth after the first few bites. The milky ice cream underneath was sweet and as it melts away, the flavour of the edamame then becomes prevalent. They must have experimented many times to get the mochi just right, so that it doesn't become hard when frozen but isn't too soft that it doesn't feel like mochi. They got it just right and it really does work well with ice cream.