{"id":2840,"date":"2013-07-18T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:37:49","slug":"mochi-diaries-gomatamago-%e3%81%94%e3%81%be%e3%81%9f%e3%81%be%e3%81%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2013\/07\/mochi-diaries-gomatamago-%e3%81%94%e3%81%be%e3%81%9f%e3%81%be%e3%81%94\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochi Diaries:<\/b> Gomatamago \u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to another instalment of the Mochi Diaries, Chapter 6 Gomatamago \u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u201d! While these guys really aren’t mochi but in fact intricately designed cakes, they are omiyage \u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e5\u0153\u0178\u00e7\u201d\u00a3 and so kawaii I couldn’t resist!!!<\/p>\n

During my last top to \u00e6\u009d\u00b1\u00e4\u00ba\u00ac I picked a box of Gomatamago \u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u201d (Lit. Black Sesame Egg) cakes on my way home as the packaging intrigued me. Furthermore Gomatamago are a meibutsu \u00e5\u0090\u008d\u00e7\u2030\u00a9 (specialty product) of the Tokyo region, so it’s not as if I would have the opportunity to purchase them again in the near future. As far as omiyage go, these are on the pricey side of things at 700\u00e5\u2020\u2020 for a box containing 8 eggs. That said, they are each individually wrapped and sizeable.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4168\"<\/a>The centre is a sweet paste consisting of kurogoma \u00e9\u00bb\u2019\u00e8\u0192\u00a1\u00e9\u00ba\u00bb (black sesame seeds) and anko \u00e9\u00a4\u00a1\u00e5\u00ad\u0090 (red bean paste) which is supposed to constitute the ‘yolk’ of the egg \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps they are meant to be piitan \u00e7\u0161\u00ae\u00e8\u203a\u2039 (Chinese century eggs) ( ^\u00cf\u2030^ ). This ‘yolk’ is then coated in a thin layer of kasutera \u00e3\u201a\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u2020\u00e3\u0192\u00a9 (castella cake), a type of Japanese cake whose origins lie in 16th<\/sup> century Nagasaki and trade with Portugal. It is immensely popular these days. Finally the tamago is coated in a thin layer of white-chocolate to form a delicious crispy ‘shell’.<\/p>\n

All in all I was quite impressed by this tasty treat. I imagine they would go hand in hand with a cup of afternoon tea.
\nThe centre retained a perfect level of moistness and was not overly sweet.
\nIf you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ever in Tokyo give a box a try!<\/p>\n

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4\/5<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to another instalment of the Mochi Diaries, Chapter 6 Gomatamago \u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u201d! While these guys really aren’t mochi but in fact intricately designed cakes, they are omiyage \u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e5\u0153\u0178\u00e7\u201d\u00a3 and so kawaii I couldn’t resist!!! During my last top to \u00e6\u009d\u00b1\u00e4\u00ba\u00ac I picked a box of Gomatamago \u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00be\u00e3\u0081\u201d (Lit. Black Sesame Egg) cakes on my way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[363,325],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Photo-2012-07-02-\u00e5\u008d\u02c6\u00e5\u2030\u008d10-20-40.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}