I ate sakuramochi yesterday.
This is traditional Japanese sweets, using cherry leaves.
We eat sakuramochi in this season.
The cherry leaves have adistinct aroma and salty.
The azuki-bean filling kicked in it is sweet.
The combination of salitiness and sweetness is very addictive.
Sakuramochi comes in two types.
This is the western version, calllled “domyoji”.
It is made with steamed sticky-rice flower and
has a sticker texture.
This is the eastern version, called “cyomeiji”.
The pink parts around the bean paste is made of
baked diluted wheat flour.
