Kinako ... Roasted Soy Bean Powder.
Which is a powder that is used as a sprinkle over savoury or deserts. Tastes a bit like our malt! but with a more nutty roasted flavour.
Kokuto is a black syrup made from black sugar, it tastes like our trickle! only with a much darker flavour.
Yesterday they had used the Kokuto syrup mixed with the Kinako powder to make a sticky flavour bomb over the
soy milk mucha ice cream .... AMAZING
Being a boy I'm very suspicious of "green ice cream" once a long long time ago in a far off country hmmmm "Australia" it was made with green tea and tasted like eating a ball of ice cream that had been dropped into a fermenting compost heap of hot newly mown green clover and buffalo lawn clippings.
It's a childhood "smell memory" burned in to my head from my 1st business as a 10 year old, teamed with a "food memory" of a 30 something going to a posh restaurant and having a so called
"new food experience".
Something's just don't go together! well maybe they do if it was done right.
So with the look of horror when this green desert dish arrived I gingerly tried and to my delight now I have new taste memory to wipe away all the old one's....
And it’s presented so beautifully you would have to enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteHave never tried Macha, have seen it used a lot on the cooking shows, so am keen to try it
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