Chocolate of the Day:2 pieces
Tokyo Nostalgie/Nostalgy
(Distributed by Noda USA)
Chocolate Mochi
Good - Good +
Weight: .706 oz. (20 g.)/ 3.53 oz. (100 g.) total box of 10
Calories: 105 calories (estimate)
Cost: $4.50
Purchased from: nippon-ya, in Japantown area of San Francisco, CA
This box was adorned with night-time and sunset city scenes of a bridge (not sure which one). "Please have memories of the travel all together" the wrapper states.
I'm guessing this "Rare Chocolate Mochi" item was packaged for Japanese people living in the U.S. who may be thinking fondly of home, or Japanese tourists who visit San Francisco and who find mochi more difficult to find in the U.S. Or, for anyone that might like mochi or chocolate, like me.
Mochi is a sweet, slightly starchy and gelatinous item -- the gnocchi of the dessert world. Ingredients include vegetable starch syrups (corn, potato, and/or sweet potato), sugar, rice (cake) powder, oils, and albumen. It is usually gluten-free as well.
Mochi is somewhat difficult to find, even in west coast cities like San Francisco that have a Japantown. And, chooclate mochi is, indeed, even rarer.
