Yukimi Daifuku (

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

: "snow-viewing

daifuku , or (literally "great luck"), is a wagashi, (a type of Japanese confection) consisting of a small round mochi (a glutinous rice cake) stuffed with a sweet filling, most commonly '' anko'', (a sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans). D ...

") is a brand of

mochi ice cream Mochi ice cream is a confection made from Japanese mochi (pounded sticky rice) with an ice cream filling. It was invented by Japanese-American businesswoman and community activist Frances Hashimoto. Description Mochi ice cream is a small, round ...

manufactured by Lotte. It was also released in Japan in October 1981. It consists of a ball of vanilla ice milk wrapped in a thin layer of

mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of , a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan, it is traditionally ma ...

, or rice cake, bathed in coconut milk. Lotte originally created Watabōshi (

: "cotton hat or capped with snow"), a bite-size ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of marshmallow in 1980. Marshmallow was quickly replaced by mochi because it was more popular in Japan and the company perfected a technology to keep mochi soft at freezing temperature in 1981. It comes in three sizes: a carton containing two pieces of ice cream, with a plastic pick for eating it; a "mini yukimi daifuku" box with nine smaller ice creams that contain 9 spoons; and "yukimi daifuku petit three colour box" ( ''Yukimi Daifuku Puchi San-iro'') containing three kinds, a

green tea ice cream or matcha ice (抹茶アイス ''Matcha aisu'') is an ice cream flavor popular in Japan and other parts of East Asia. Green tea ice cream is also sold in ''monaka'' form. It has been available in the United States since the late-1970s, primar ...

, a chocolate ice cream, and a vanilla ice cream. Many people favour the Vanilla, known for its sweet taste. Aside from its regular vanilla flavor, there is also strawberry milk, triple chocolate raw, tokachi azuki, and raw chocolate. The regular Yukimi daifuku, strawberry milk, and triple chocolate raw comes in a packaging of two pieces (47 mL each). The tokachi azuki and raw chocolate flavour comes in the same packaging as the mini box. They contain nine pieces with 30 mL in each. In the

hanami is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers; in this case almost always refer to those of the or, less frequently, trees. From the end of March to early May, cherry trees bloom all over Japan, and around ...

(cherry blossom viewing) season, a seasonal variety with strawberry ice cream is sold. '' Yukimi'' is a seasonal activity in Japan, similar to hanami, consisting of watching snow falling. The name is a play upon '' tsukimi daifuku'' (, "moon-viewing daifuku"), the sweets traditionally eaten while viewing the moon.

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