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Unidentified Kakanin in Japan

1 Comment Posted by on May 22, 2014
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Not far from mochi taste at all

Looks like Philippine kakanin (rice cake) with its sticky rice and unidentified leaf packaging. However, it has bean paste filling which is very common in traditional confections of Japan.

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Tricolor Rice Eats

Leave a comment Posted by on January 21, 2014

Rub-a-dub-dub, three sticky rice thing in a tub.
And what do you think they were?

This lady vendor in Prambanan Temple Compound has three appealing variations of sticky rice snack where the texture and taste are similar to a couple of glutinous rice based kakanin in the Philippines.
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The purple one taste like puto maya while the pink one looks like an odd-shaped mochi with no filling (I was too full of the purple and green stuff to try this one, and its color isn’t natural that’s why).
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The green thing that’s more visible in the photo below taste like suman sa lihiya but presented in tiny square bite size.

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Sticks as utensil and banana leaf as plate

Whichever color you’d choose, they’ll be served with that latik at the center of the tub (sugar-coconut syrup), and garnished with grated coconut meat.

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