Et voila, I present you, the first article on japanese food. This time it’s nothing really expensive or super-special, as I’ve just bought it in the supermarket, but these are typical sweets in Japan, so I decided to share them: Dango (団子) and Sakura-Mochi (桜餅). Dango are small dumplings mostly made from rice-flour and water, although there are many different variants including meatballs for example. But well, mine were made out of flour and water, so they were sticky little bastards xD The ones on the wodden sticks tasted like matcha (japanese green tea powder (抹茶)) and the glassy looking ones had a bag of seasoning which carried some kind of sweet nut-flavour (and was also supposed to make them less sticky, I guess). I ate them all in one evening, because I really like the taste

The Sakura-Mochi is a small riceball (but bigger than the Dango), which is filled with sweet red bean paste and wrapped into a pickled leaf from a cherry tree. While the taste of the leaf is a bit salty at first, the taste of the Mochi is really sweet and I enjoy eating them very much. I actually don’t know, how they coloured the rice to make it become pink, but it’s surely all natural… or not. Who knows xD

So, enjoy some pictures, while I eat my remaining Mochi