Hello girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried and Tested!
Today we'll be trying out some unique food creations with mochi!
I love mochi, I am so excited for this episode!
Chinese Tofu Magician is a store from china that sells spruced up soy milk drinks.
And they recently opened up a store in Paya Lebar Square
and they drew like really really long queues.
And you know what, they're so popular they only let you buy like two drinks at one time.
So their soybean milk is like very special,
it takes like 45 minutes and 8 processes to create just 1 pot
and they grind their soybeans fresh every day with this like ancient stone grinding technique on a big stone mill.
So what we have here is the soymilk tea with soy foam and white jade.
So there's soymilk tea,
and then there's a creamy soy foam on top
and then it's dusted with soy bean powder and white jade,
which is the mochi!
Look at that!
This looks so creamy!
You're supposed to roll this around in the soy foam and it helps to enhance the flavour of the mochi.
Alright I'm going to try the white jade first.
Wow!
These mochi balls are fantastic.
Like so so so so so so so good!
It's just the right amount of like chewiness.
It's chewy without being stodgy because sometimes mochi can be a bit hard
so it feels like it's a lot of effort to chew it,
this one's like just nice.
Like soft, chewy and firm altogether.
And the cream the cream is like damn shiok.
It's actually a little bit like cheese.
It's like fragrant and also a little bit savoury and sweet.
Okay let me mix it up, I actually really didn't want to mix it up because I like the cream on its own.
Okay let me try the milk tea.
Oh there is jelly!
It's a bit flowery, a bit like fruity.
I'm okay with the jelly, I kind of prefer pudding.
Oh this is reminding me of like the soymilk bobo from Heytea,
there's so many different textures and surprises along the way!
The soymilk is very rich,
and the soybean does taste a little bit different from like the soya bean that I'm used to,
it's really like less sweet, more earthy, a bit flowery, maybe that's because of the tea.
So it's really moreish, I think it's because there's a bit of the kinako which is a bit like nutty
and then you also have the cream which is a bit savoury
and then you have the tea that's a bit flowery,
and just altogether, it's just really quite beautiful
and I think right it's very very smooth and it's very fragrant.
And that mochi is very good!
I think I would give this a 10/10.
I'm loving all the textures together
and as a drink it's just like so much fun.
So here we have donuts and mochi,
these are called dochis!
The name is so cute!
So this is from WTV Food,
which stands for whatever food.
So the owner is quite cute,
she says it came from how you know every time you ask Singaporeans what they want to eat, they're like whatever lah,
so it was kind of like an offshoot of that and also it's not going to be confined to just dochi,
she started as a home-based business in July 2021,
I guess that means we don't know what she might bring to the table next.
So they offer a range of flavours which are mostly sweet but they do have one savoury
so today we have one savoury and one sweet.
So this is their only savoury flavour,
the parmesan garlic butter and this dochi is like slathered with like homemade garlic butter
and then it's topped with parmesan cheese and parsley flakes.
Ah the garlic butter,
you can really smell it it just smells very rich and
very garlicky.
Oh my god they're so soft!
I was not expecting it to be this soft!
Okay let's try this.
It's so buttery,
it kind of reminds me of you know when you get escargot,
like the garlic butter is just pooled at the bottom,
it's kind of like that.
Oh this is so addictive!
Oh this is gonna be very hard to stop, how?
Don't stop!
I'm gonna have another one!
Actually if you didn't tell me there was mochi in here,
I probably wouldn't have guessed.
It brings to mind like the krispy kreme donuts but like chewier and lighter.
It's oily but it doesn't feel heavy.
I find these quite decadent actually even though they're so small.
There's like quite a lot of oil and a lot of butter but it tastes really really good.
Okay I want to try another one.
We have the biscoff crunch.
This is topped with the lotus biscoff spread, as well as the biscuit.
This is surprisingly not too sweet!
I thought this was going to be like super sweet just because there's so much sweet stuff on top of it
but I think it's like really not too sweet at all.
The biscoff on top doesn't really add any like crunch to it actually,
like because the biscoff biscuit is already like quite soft and crumbly,
it's more of like a bit more of a rougher texture.
And then I couldn't really tell there was any biscoff spread.
It's like you know when you eat nutella by the spoonful and then it just like kind of like sticks to your teeth,
I was kind of expecting that a little bit with this spread but it wasn't at all,
I think it's quite a thin layer.
I think maybe because everything is already a little bit sweet so I think it's quite cool that she managed to make this like not that sweet.
This dochi thing is very addictive,
it's just one of those like I can almost imagine like if they made it even smaller and put it in a bag,
oh my god I think I cannot... I won't be able to stop eating it!
Just like the right combination of like oily,
fried,
chewy,
light,
doughy,
but not heavy doughy.
So I think overall rating,
I think this one is like it's quite fun, it's nice to eat, it's tasty,
it's an interesting mixture of texture
so I think I would give this like an 8.5/10.
For this one, I really like it.
It makes me think of garlic bread but like a different version of garlic bread so that it's quite exciting for me
so I mean I would give this like a 10/10.
Yeah I do think that kids will really like it,
and also for the kids inside us.
This is a muah chee croissant cube from Keong Saik Bakery.
It's a charcoal croissant cube and inside we have black sesame paste,
we have muah chee which is made from the same ingredient as mochi which is like glutinous rice flour
and then it's got crushed peanuts on top of it.
I have never seen a croissant in this shape before, I'm very excited to try this!
Ooo that looks so beautiful!
I'm gonna have a bite with like all the good stuff in it.
Let's try this.
The croissant is like crunchy on the outside,
the black sesame paste is very gao.
But the overall sensation that I get from this is that it's very sticky,
because the black sesame paste is generally already a very sticky paste,
and then the muah chee is also very sticky
and then together with like the croissant,
okay the croissant is not sticky but like the croissant and the peanuts,
they're a bit more on the dry side right so then you have sticky and dry together which is like...
it feels a little bit dangerous to eat because it's like a choking hazard.
It's just all together,
i'm probably making it sound more dramatic than it is
but...
I would recommend smaller bites.
Alright I'm gonna try like a smaller mouthful.
Yeah it's much more manageable with like smaller mouthfuls
like...
because there's certain things that you can eat like very big mouthfuls, this is not one of them.
I do feel like the textures together can be a bit much,
but it's delicious.
I do think you need a drink with this
but overall, it's really yummy,
very flavourful, it's a nice earthy dessert, it's a nice change
from like the chocolate and the strawberries and the buttery that you would find in most bakeries.
I think this is a dessert that would be great for sharing
because it's just so rich and so gao
and it's also one of those desserts that I think after you eat you'll be very satisfied,
you know like some desserts you take right then it's after like...
did I have dessert, did I not?
This one is like you confirm will feel like yes,
I had dessert, it was good, I am satisfied, yeah.
So overall it's really yummy, I would give this an 8/10.
So this is the matcha mochi bun from Mamafang.
So Mamafang is a home-based business,
and they sell these artisan steamed buns that are made from all natural ingredients
and they're also vegan!
There's something about the shape and the colour and everything it just makes me think of like a cartoon.
Maybe it's the colour,
maybe it's a shape,
maybe it's just both of it.
It just feels like it belongs in a cartoon or an animation you know?
Okay so I'm gonna cut this open.
Okay I'm gonna try and do the mochi pull.
Yes!
Okay let's try this.
This is very interesting.
The mochi is very stretchy and very chewy.
Actually yeah this is kind of like what I would imagine in my head if you told me like mochi bread,
because I can taste bread and then I can taste mochi separately and they're all together
whereas I think a lot of the mochi breads that actually happen
are usually like mochi mixed into bread or like mochi and bread almost like slightly separate or like encased or something,
it's interesting, I don't recall having tasted something quite like this,
a bread I might have tasted like this but not with a mochi like this.
The mochi is very light, it's almost a bit like...
actually the way they do it kind of reminds me a bit of like nian gao
but like the lighter type of nian gao.
Like after the nian gao has been like cooked and like a bit melty that kind.
The matcha you can taste like the bitterness,
you can also taste like how green it is,
like almost can taste the leaves kind of feeling you know.
It's very good, I really like how much flavour there is in here.
Almost feels like it's just packed with matcha, very nice.
The flavours and everything like everything tastes clean,
I don't know if that makes sense but like the bun tastes clean,
like very pure steamed bun kind of flavour, which is why it kind of reminds me of like a mantou I think.
I mean i like that it's not sweet and I like that it's got fun textures and flavours
and flavours that you normally like associate with a dessert or like with tea but like not sweet.
Also aesthetically, I think it's really very pleasing.
It looked weird to me at first but the more I look at it the more I'm like wow it looks really quite nice and perfect.
So yeah I think overall I would give this a 10/10.
Oh and I just realised also this is like our first mochi of the day that is actually flavoured!
Because the rest have been mostly either well mixed into dough
or like they're the plain mochi
and everything around it is flavoured.
Do you like cookies?
Do you like mochi?
we have a mochi cookie, oh my god.
Okay so this is from Grams.
So the person behind Grams is called Bryan,
and he is a cake enthusiast, he started off as a home baker
and the reason that all of it started was because he missed his grandma's baking
and so he wanted to recreate it.
Okay so we tried to do the mochi pull shot like they did in their picture
but we haven't been able to get it
and the mochi is like really hot at the moment
so we're gonna wait for it to cool down and then we'll just pull the mochi,
just to show you how stretchy this thing is.
Oh there we go!
Let's try it together.
That's very addictive!
The butteriness is very very good.
And it's got like this caramelised, like brown butter brown sugar kind of feeling and with the mochi it's so good, mmm it's really yummy!
The cookie is a bit more like the subway cookie texture,
like it's like soft, not chewy chewy but a bit chewy but like not super chewy.
Alright now we'll try one that has not been heated up.
So texture wise it is about the same,
it's almost cake like in the center and the outside is nice and hard.
The mochi definitely works better when it's heated up because it's soft and more gooey.
I kind of wondered...
because the mochi center is quite small so you will have a lot of the cookie that has no mochi at all.
Maybe because like the inside is meant to be eaten with the mochi
so you get like that cookie bubble gum effect
right, then the outside is meant to be eaten as a cookie cookie,
maybe?
I don't know but yeah I think that the mochi is very...
like there's something quite interesting when it mixes together with the soft cookie bits.
The overall effect there is like really quite interesting.
Okay I think overall I will give this like a 7.5/10.
I kind of wished there was like a bit more mochi though
or maybe spread more evenly or like distribute it throughout the cookie,
I don't know, but again is it that the mochi is supposed to be eaten with the soft part only...?
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