PrintSugar Rush: Sesame Mochi Soup at Spicy & Tasty
[Photo: Kathy Chan]
I am familiar with this Asian dessert, here accurately if unappealingly called a "sesame bean paste rice ball": black sesame paste stuffed in soft mochi, and served in a soup of fermented rice. The hot liquid sesame, thick and creamy, slowly drips out as you bite away the mochi. Immensely satisfying. But this particular version, served at Spicy & Tasty in Flushing was new for me.
Eggs! Egg whites, specifically. Swirled into the dessert soup in the same manner as hot and sour soup, among the grains of fermented rice. I associate egg whites with savory soups, never sweet ones, but this dessert grew on me. The restaurant service may have been surly, but I'd go back for this alone.
Spicy & Tasty
3907 Prince Street, Flushing NY 11354 (map)
718-359-1601
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3 Comments:
you can also buy the prepackaged sweet mochi balls in the frozen sections in the Asian supermarkets too.
gargupie at 4:30PM on 11/02/09
It'd be an even better review for you not calling tun yuan mochi. They are not mochi!! Just want to put it on record.
jczhadan at 9:17AM on 11/03/09
Hey Kathy -- it's just egg, not egg whites. I've seen my dad make egg flower soup many times at our restaurant and it always looks just like that with whole egg. :)
alicemeichi at 1:18PM on 11/05/09