Their shape and look can resemble some homemade soap bar slices. At room temperature, their sweetness and texture reminds me of microwaved red bean cake. :meow-melt:
They came in a variety of looks. They could be one solid color, opaque, slightly translucent, have red beans and/or black sesame inside, or be striped like the above pic. Mainly saw them in the colors white, green, brownish-red, brown, pink, and dark grey w/ black specks.
I log onto Hexbear.net while eating soap and this user behind me said "this :LIB: is eating soap" and everyone laughed
I'm excited about how close this seems. If you're not exactly right, you're basically right. This could be a different culture's version of pretty much the same food. (Like how every other country has a version of fried donuts.)
Have you had some that's very soft and stretchy at room temperature?
I havent had it since I was a kid, but I remember it being soft. I dont know if stretchy is the word I would use but certainly sort of squishy. Anyways hope you find what you are looking for.
There's this stuff but idk about a chinese version
edit: well there's this stuff two links deep so there's clearly a chinese analogue to mochi, idk of any specific brands or versions or whatever
the chinese analogue to mochi is maji. qingtuan is similar but has a very noticeable mugwort (aicao) flavour and it's usually just sold around tomb sweeping day.
Hishi mochi looks exactly right! But if it only came in pink white and green.
It's not Qingtuan though. No filling, Just one very soft and stretchy slab.
I think this is an indonesian thing, not chinese. Coconut jelly? I had it from indonesian and burmese restaurants here.
I also had something similar from Hainan island. if it's the same thing you mean, it's not really mochi-like, more gelatinous.
edit: is it this ?
No jelly. Just stretchy-ness and softness. It jiggled but it wasn't gelatin-like.
I see great similarity in some pictures of kue lapis, but a lot of bright colors. I never saw a vendor sell the food I'm looking for in bright colors other than magenta and matcha green.
Just as pretty, but not nearly as sticky. What I had was coated in oil so you could actually remove it from plastic wrapping. Pieces stuck together like gooey tape.
Have you had nian gao that's very soft and stretchy at room temperature?
I'm seeing some very brightly colored Kue Lapis. I haven't seen a vendor sell what I'm looking for in many super bright colors. Only bright color was a light magenta pink and matcha green.
i can't remember the name of this exactly, it does sounds like you're thinking of some kueh variation like others have said
i always see the packs of these at the asian delis near me, always so tempted to grab one of the styrofoam trays of desserts with this and that one palm sugar 'dumpling' (i feel like I' m failing my SEA heritage not knowing the name lmao), reminds me of childhood shit :))
Kuih, kue, kueh, all related but you'll get different results since they're regional terms for similar stuff
It didn't have kuih's common ingredient of coconut, but kuih looks so similar, you might be right.
This and Hishi mochi seem like the most precise guesses. However, Hishi mochi seems to only come in a set of 3 colors. So the variety of kuih's appearance seems more spot-on.
The Indonesian ones tend to have coconut, but it's kind of a generic term with lots of regional variation, so hopefully it's a helpful search term at least
Godspeed treat hunter :rat-salute-2:
only company I know that sold it in stores closed :sadness:
I think you're just thinking of cream cheese stuffed mochi.
That's a thing? Now I want to try it.
No cream in what I had. There was some pleasant textures of red beans and sesame seed paste but it was nearly homogeneously mixed right into the stretchy-ness.
Closest thing I can think of is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkan
I've had agar jelly, and it wasn't the same texture. But if Yokan chews and stretches like soft mochi, there's a chance you're right.
No spongy-ness. Only squishy and stretchy.
Spekkoek looks tasty though.
