Treats: Another Pino for my belly, it IS ice cream season, after all...

I'm always looking for new treats to try from my local コンビに (konbini). What can I say? I'm a sugar fiend. Especially when it's sugar mixed with cocoa... oh yes. I am one of those people. I love me some chocolate!

Today I tried out a new flavour of Pino Ice Cream made by the Morinaga Company. Pino Ice is a chunk of ice cream slightly bigger than the size of a rolo chocolate that is covered in delicious milk chocolate. They have several flavours, one of which is their newest flavour: Rouge Berry.

Treats, treats, I love me some treats!

Mix Mochi (rice cake), Kinako (roasted soybean powder), and Kuro-mitsu (dark sugar syrup) together and what do you get?

Shingen Mochi!

Not to be confused with ningen mochi, which... is a terrifying thought. Moving along...