Taiwan snacks- mochi

As I recently blogged here, my grandmother came to visit and brought a lot of delicious Taiwanese snacks with her.  One of the snacks she brought with little mochis.  When I first saw these, I wasn’t very interested.  They looked like the prepackaged mochi that you can find at Ranch 99 and other local asian markets.  It’s usually sold in bags, with individual wrapped mochi inside in different flavors.

I’m not a big fan of prepackaged mochi.  They don’t taste the same as fresh ones.  Some of the chewiness is gone.  And there is something else about them, I don’t know exactly what it is, that I don’t like.  But my mom assured me that these did not taste like the ones we usually get here in California.

Sure enough, she was right!  These mochi are super chewy, and taste almost like fresh mochi.  The package comes with four different flavors: coffee, red bean, taro and green tea.  The mochi balls are almost all flavor, with only a tiny bit of filling in the middle.  These mochi are so addicting, I wish I had more.  If only they could learn to make it like that here.