Goheimochi 五平饼
An interesting find just outside the Castle. Some stalls had been set up to sell food to visitors visiting Matsumoto Castle to view the blooming sakuras.
Unlike the Dango, Gohei Mochi, on the other hand, is made from normal white rice. It is pounded into a sticky cake, stuck on a skewer, coated in a sweet sauce and aromatically cooked over a flame. This dish appear to originate long ago, when people working in the mountains stuck rice on pieces of wood and grilled them, and ate them with miso when drinking sake. Gohei mochi is traditionally offered at shrines in the spring and fall to pray for a good harvest.
Of the 2 snacks mate and myself bought - I prefer this Goheimochi a lot more. I love the sweet-savouriness of this snack and I do not mind that I could actually enjoyed the texture of the cooked rice grains.
Goheimochi 五平饼
An interesting find just outside the Castle. Some stalls had been set up to sell food to visitors visiting Matsumoto Castle to view the blooming sakuras.
Unlike the Dango, Gohei Mochi, on the other hand, is made from normal white rice. It is pounded into a sticky cake, stuck on a skewer, coated in a sweet sauce and aromatically cooked over a flame. This dish appear to originate long ago, when people working in the mountains stuck rice on pieces of wood and grilled them, and ate them with miso when drinking sake. Gohei mochi is traditionally offered at shrines in the spring and fall to pray for a good harvest.
Of the 2 snacks mate and myself bought - I prefer this Goheimochi a lot more. I love the sweet-savouriness of this snack and I do not mind that I could actually enjoyed the texture of the cooked rice grains.