| Japan's answer to flubber, mochi is a highly glutinous rice that can be rolled out into a sticky, pasta-like wrapper ready for filling with something sweet, in this case home-made red-bean ice cream and green-tea ice cream. |
| The chocolate part is prepared of red beans, and the toast is the browned mochi. |
| The August Princes have presented themselves before the King for three days to receive gifts of mochi. |
| Dessert is pure fun: sheets of mochi filled with chocolate and vanilla ice cream are a spiffy spin on the blintz, and a grown-up egg cream is made with stout and carbonated milk. |
| By the time the dish reaches the table, the starch has softened to create a skin over the creamy tofu that is elastic and not dissimilar to mochi, the Japanese glutinous rice paste. |
| A telephone call after my visits confirmed that the menu was correct and that the restaurant served mochi ice cream and fried pastries called yakgwa. |
