Adventures In Breakfast! Today's Test Subject
Would you eat this?
I would.
The brown things are beans called ANKO. Closest description I can come up with is sweet red beans. The cake had a green tint to it--that would be due to a pinch of green tea.
Verdict? Delicious! The cake was soft, moist, and spongy, not unlike yummy carrot cake. Like many Japanese delicacies, the taste wasn't strong: just a hint of sweetness from the anko. And the perfect size for one serving. I would definately buy it again. Grade A
7 comments:
I have to say I'd have to smell it before I tried it. It doesn't look to appetizing in the photo. In fact I feel nauseous now just thinking about it in my head. TMM
For a brief, fleeting yet glorious second I thought to myself Chocolate-Chip Twinkies - SCORE!!! but then reality came crashing down around me. Finally there's something that makes my chicken jello look appetizing in comparison. Never thought I'd see the day.
Actually, that looks quite tasty to me! I loved my green tea cake, and the anko beans are the closest thing to candy I could find in Japan, so . . . sign me up! In fact, there were only two things I drew the line at - the squid and the chicken jello soup! Yes, and if Bridget has a better recipe for that, I might try it! Mommasan
Yo, Mommasan! So Japan has chicken-jello-type-foodstuffs as well? And more importantly, you had the luxury to be able to draw the line?!? Color me jealous. The recipe for my chicken jello (not so much "my" in the sense that it was "my" recipe, more so that I was the one forced to eat it in an awkward I'm-in-a-foreign-country-and-have-to-appear-polite-and-culturally-sensitive-by-choking-down-whatever-vulgarities-my-hosts-put-in-front-of-me sort of way) consisted of plain gelatin, chicken broth, garlic and of course the obligatory hunks of suspended fatty chicken.
And I thought my Aunt Barb's 4th of July rutabaga jello mold was bad.
Ok, I'm going to need you to change the photos b/c it's still making me sick-o whenever I click on my "Tokyo blog" bookmark. :) TMM
OK, Tara, I changed it. But you'd be sick-o not to enjoy that bean cake! It was great...
I assure you if I come to Tokyo I will smell it then maybe lick it depending on how it smelled. Then I might progress to biting it. But thank you for changing the photo; that was very considerate of you. TMM
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