New dessert divides the nation.
Each autumn, folks in Japan stay up for tsukimi (actually “moon-viewing“), a customized that honours the great thing about the harvest moon, which appears significantly brilliant and exquisite presently of 12 months. Prior to now, folks used to have fun by consuming tsukimi dango (“moon-viewing dumplings“) whereas gazing on the night time sky, however lately, quick meals chains have been turning the custom on its head with their very own limited-edition choices.
McDonald’s is one such chain that honours the autumn moon, and whereas their Tsukimi Burgers have been standard for a few years, in 2019 they wowed prospects by including a Tsukimi Pie to the lineup. This candy honours the custom of tsukimi dango by that includes mochi, the sticky rice cake generally used to make dumplings, in its filling, and this 12 months it’s combining it with two different very Japanese components, in what they’re calling the Kinako Mochi and Anko Tsukimi Pie.
“Kinako” is roasted soybean flour, whereas “anko” is crimson bean paste, and in case you open the pie that’s precisely what you’ll discover inside, with the kinako showing in paste type atop the layer of mochi.
Beforehand, McDonald’s served up its Tsukimi Pie with solely crimson bean paste and mochi within the filling, so the addition of a 3rd ingredient is a brand new growth for the chain.
If you happen to love the nutty, toasted style of kinako then you definately’re in for an actual deal with, as a result of this pie is powerful on these flavours. Regardless of being a paste, it truly tastes just like the powdered type of kinako, delivering an intense degree of flavour that makes its presence recognized upon first chew earlier than lingering lengthy within the aftertaste.
▼ The kinako is so pronounced you is likely to be mistaken for considering it is a roasted soybean pie slightly than a Tsukimi Pie.
This flavour profile is nice for kinako lovers, but it surely does have some drawbacks for lovers of the extra conventional crimson bean-and-mochi mixture, as indicated by feedback presently doing the rounds on social media platforms. On one hand, some individuals are praising the triple-flavour mixture for its style and ingenuity, whereas others are lamenting the truth that they’ll’t get pleasure from the easier two-filling model, saying it was excellent the best way it was.
In our opinion, the brand new pie is scrumptious, with the kinako serving to to dial up the normal Japanese flavours, however we will nonetheless see the attraction of the plainer Tsukimi Pie. Nonetheless, with the combined response to the dessert on-line, now we have our fingers crossed that the chain may reply by together with this one and the unique model on the menu for tsukimi season subsequent 12 months. For now, although, the Kinako Mochi and Anko Tsukimi Pie shall be obtainable on the chain till mid-October, priced at 190 yen (US$1.32), together with an entire different vary of moon-viewing menu gadgets.
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