I caught the red eye home last night. 9 hours flying in a darkened cabin, restless and unable to sleep. Jealous of the zoned out, slumbering passengers around me. Upon arriving home early this morning I managed to brush my teeth, pull my pj's on and get some shut eye...all the while dreaming of Japan...
I give you a bit of Cornelius (cuz he's the man). If this doesn't make you feel warm and toasty, well heck- i don't know what will. Sleep warm, my pretties. x
Lights up. Cue smoke machine. Cue theme music ("Eye of the Tiger" plays)...
Contender No. 1: Salt
Texture: A little icey (but this could be due to the super powers of my current freezer) but creamy enough. Quite pleasant.
Colour: Ivory
Flavour: Milky. Salty. Not dissimilar to a salted caramel. Sweet but savoury. This. Is. Good. I will be wanting more of this. Oh wait, I don't live in Japan and have no access to such a product. This. Is. Depressing.
Score: 8/10
Contender No. 2: Wasabi
Texture: A little icey, not as creamy as Salt.
Colour: A very light shade of lime green. In fact, its more a cream colour than green at all (perhaps i am a little colour blind, making this category null and void....bygones).
Flavour: Great Scott! How do they do it? There is just enough wasabi to give it a distinct flavour but isn't overly spicey. Wait- strike that, if you continuously spoon this into your mouth with the tenacity of a weasel the heat will accumulate. I find this commendable. A cold dessert that has the potential to burn your mouth. What whimsy.
Score: 7/10
Contender No. 2: Mochi (Yukimi Daifuku)
Texture: Chewy like a marshmallow (or more precisely, a mochi) and then bam! creamy creamy creamy goodness.
Colour: Like the name says: Yukimi Daifuku = snow viewing daifuku. This is like a fat, spherical snow flake, yo.
Flavour: Perfection. A superb subtlety from the glutinous rice casing and a burst of vanilla in the ice cream and did i mention it was creamy? Like "milk straight from the udder" creamy. n.b i have never tried milk squirted from a cow's udder. i have no life experience to substantiate that claim. anyone care to enlighten me? in fact, now that i think about it...milk straight from the udder would probably be warm and a little thin. in that case, this mochi is the opposite of that. corrected!
This is a chewy, glutinous, cold, creamy, ice cream, rad, asian cake thingy. Wow, I really sold that. Sold the pants off it.
Score: 9.5/10
Overall: They all performed extremely well and I baulked at none. I was expecting Salt to take it all (those who know me well can attest for my extreme love of salt/salted desserts) but that mochi, oh, that little mochi. Case closed.
In less than 5 days my little feet will take me to an airport where i will get on a plane that will fly it's way across the sky. Then my little feet will step off the plane and land in Tokyo.
I believe in comfort when travelling (especially when flying on a budget airline). It shall be harem pants, mist spray, hand cream and flying socks all the way! Although, if one wanted to be comfortable & cute...here are a couple of ideas:
