Daifuku is one of the typical Japanese sweets. Talking about Japanese sweets, what comes mind? Dango? Mochi? Daifuku? All of them are rice cakes!!
Daifuku
Daifuku is rice cake stuffed with sweet red bean paste. There are several kinds of Daifuku, one of them is a whole strawberry and red bean paste covered with skin of a rice cake. Mame Daifuku is also a rice cake filled with red bean paste but the skin of rice cake is mixed with bean so that the texture is quite crunchy.
Daifuku is 大福 in Japanese, it means great luck!
Daifuku while enjoying a snowy landscape
One of the popular ice creams in Japan is Yukimi Daifuku. It is a vanilla ice cream covered with rice cake-ish skin. The skin is chewy and springy! The ice cream is very rich. It’s not like an ordinary vanilla ice cream, it’s just delicious!
Anyway, the name of ice cream is Yukimi Daifuku, Yukimi means enjoying a snowy landscape. Japanese people love enjoying landscape such as cherry blossoms in full bloom in spring, autumn foliage in autumn. Of course, Japanese snowy landscape is beautiful.
Fresh Yukimi Daifuku
Daifuku and other rice cake sweets are called NamaGashi. It means a beautiful and delicate confection. Always it’s fresh and extremely soft.
Lotte has launched Fresh Yukimi Daifuku. It’s not ice cream, it’s NamaGashi.
Pretty two Daifuku and a fork are contained. It looks like eyes and mouth.
The fresh Yukimi Daifuku is a chewy rice cake stuffed with just soft whipped cream. It’s too soft to cut with a fork. You have to hold them in your fingers. You must be surprised. It’s sweet but not too much. The soft whipped cream is refreshing, and the part of the skin is extremely stringy!
Summary
When you visit Japan, let’s try Yukimi Daifuku first. It’s sold anywhere in Japan like convenience stores or supermarkets. It’s very similar to The Fresh Yukimi Daifuku. Let’s enjoy the chewy and stringy ice cream first! If you are fortunate enough, you are able to find the Fresh Yukimi Daifuku somewhere.
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