Japanese Sweets Deli – Mochi Cream

Yum yum, mochi~ with icy velvety cream…
It’s just dreamy.
Can’t say more than that or else I have to drive myself there to get some then I will stuck in a traffic going home… (‘_​‘;)

I go for the mochi cream. I enjoy this delicious treat so much that I crave it! The flavors are rich and delicious and so tasty. That alone is why I go and why I recommend it. They have lots of other sweets but for me, the mochi cream is where it’s at!

So I took a detour into Shirokiya and what… Mochi Cream is either closed or moved away!!!
Hmmm…I’m not surprised. I’m just sayin’.

It was just ok. The mochi looked better than it tasted. The ice cream inside was good and that’s where most of the flavor came from. I thought it was overpriced, I’ve been more satisfied with mochi ice cream from the grocery store for a lot less. For a mochi place and the price I paid I expected to enjoy the mochi more, if I wanted good ice cream I could easily go to a Ben and Jerry’s or Ghirardelli’s instead.

Yummy mochi with lots of different flavors and varieties!
I was captivated by the beautiful display of different colored mochi and decided to order a few flavors. The double mango, green tea and black sesame were all pretty good. It was nothing exceptional but its a good size for a quick dessert.
I didn’t get any attitude from the girl behind the counter as previous Unilocalers have mentioned. Maybe she’s new and replaced the one with bad CS. lol

This is not a mochi ice cream.
MOCHICREAM is served chilled. Inside you’ll find specially made cream w/​a subtle yet rich flavor and the tasty bean jam are wrapped carefully in a soft rice cake.
There are a lot of flavors. so many that you won’t be able to decide which one to get.
My friend got the apple pie, it’s got the cream w/​bean jam that tasted like applie it also has real chunks of apples too! just like an apple pie but wrapped in a mochi.
I got the purple yam. it was sweet and light. The yam paste was just right.
Mochicream is expensive for a small little mochi that I can just eat that thing in seconds… i don’t think i should live one near it or else i’ll spend most of my money here.
I agree w/​Santi T. it’s «sweet but not ‘Americanized’ sweet»
If you do come here, do try the specialty flavors, i guarantee you won’t find it anywhere else!

I was looking for a smallish dessert and thought of this place. After trying Bubbies mochi I had to try theirs. I got an Apple Pie and Honey Cranberry. (They raised the price to $ 2.oo/each.) The Apple Pie wasnt I was expecting but the Honey Cranberry was fab! They so small but delicious. I could eat them by the half dozen, easily.
I better stay away from here. This could turn into a expensive craving.

The mochi is good and is nice and chewy, but I don’t like the fillings. It’s not really creamy, it’s more paste-​y. These little things don’t do anything for me. I prefer mochi ice cream; these are too dry.
The first time I went there, I got really excited by the flavors and bought 6 to try while I wandered around upstairs. However, the first one I bit into was not the flavor I had ordered, so I went back to the counter and told the lady that she gave me the wrong flavor. She didn’t believe me. I had only taken a tiny bite out of it, so I showed it to her as proof that it was not the flavor I had ordered. I asked if she could give me the correct flavor. She then said I hadn’t ordered that flavor. Then she went into the back to get her boss. After some discussion, he came over to talk to me. Seriously, people! You got the order wrong. Why can’t you just switch it out? I half-​expected them to ask me to regurgitate the little bit I had eaten before they would correct their mistake. ..

Not a fan of what I ordered and even less of a fan of the girl behind the counter.
Girl: «What can I get for you?»
Me and friends: «Um…hold on. Ok, can we get a mango»
Girl: «Double mango, what else?»
Friend: «Uhh…blueberry»
Girl: «What else?»
Me: «Apple pie»
Girl: «Ok, what else…»
Me: «Peach yogurt.»
Girl: «Is that it?»
Hands hands over the bag with our goodies. We paid.
Friend: «Can we get some napkins?»
Girl: «It’s in the bag already.» (in a straight forward tone)
Geez, sorry for wasting your precious time when there was no one else around but us! My friends and I were all shocked at her attitude because we’re normally really tolerable to crap service.
My apple pie and peach yogurt sucks. I’ll definitely want to try the black sesame next time.

I don’t get this one. Never got the whole mochi with ice cream inside it. I just don’t think this holds a candle to real manju. No way. You can’t even taste the mochi anyway. Why not just get the cream? It’s like a Japanese way of getting rid of the cone, but the cone’s my favorite part!
MAJOR NOTE: The flavor is very very light which will agree with Japanese from Japan taste buds. That’s just how they make things there.
Unfortunately, everyone can’t compare manju and this bastard mochi because there aren’t any great manju confectioners on Oahu (that I’ve heard of). Does that make me a purist when it comes to pounded rice desserts? Yes, but that doesn’t mean you have to be that way.
The little stand is nicely presented and with the black background the mochi colors «pop» and scream out to you, «Buy me!» A great bit of marketing genius. Shoot, I don’t even like them, but they look so good I still want to buy them. Ah, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…
The ladies are always nice and it’s located on the ground floor of Shirokiya.

Tried the chocolate banana mochi. Two things I shouldn’t eat, rice and banana’s, but hell, I was on holiday.
I didn’t let it sit long enough, so the ann was still frozen. It was the ann that was banana flavor. The cream is a small sliver of cream inserted inside the ann. So all you lactose intolerant folks out there, don’t worry, it is not enough to upset your stomach. Price wise, it was pricey, $ 1.50 and up for a piece. Not your typical mochi or ice cream mochi, but worth the try.

This place really tests your patience. Of course, I lost! Let me explain:
Mochi cream is a frozen mochi delight with different flavored «cream» inside. Supposedly, you should wait 5 – 10 minutes for the cream/​mochi to melt slightly so you can get a better bite and texture.
No way did I wait to start devouring my cranberry honey and sweet potato ($ 1.80/each) desserts. The taste was sweet but not «Americanized» sweet. With all the variety, you can easily select a few because they are small enough to pop inside your mouth.
This is located on the first floor in Shirokiya near St. Germaine’s bakery (not on the second floor near the food court). Try the specialty flavors because they are unique to this shop.
I bet you won’t be able to wait either!

So mochi, so creamy, so mochi-​creamy!
Orange CS, Black Sesame, and Caramel Macchiato are my favs!

YUM! After shopping til you drop… or … whatever you did that day, what could be better than some MOCHI CREAM… drool.
At first, we thought it was just mochi ice cream. Noooooooo. This is MOCHI CREAM, meaning there is a layer of cream (like in a cream puff) and then frozen yogurt in the middle. It is so refreshing and delicious, and they have a TON of flavors. It’s a perfect addition to Shirokiya’s yummy food stands, I will definitely go back!

I was excited to find Mochi Cream after taking my hotel’s concierge recommendation of Shirokiya for mochi. Mochi Cream is located inside Shirokiya Department Store which is fun to visit in itself (as I believe it is the last remaining department store of Japan’s Shirokiya company that started back in late 1600s). I’ve seen photos of the beautiful counter from my friend’s trips to Tokyo and was excited to see a similar mochi display here (
). With so many options, I had a hard time choosing. I got red bean which is my favorite and got the sakura (cherry blossom) based on the shopgirl’s recommendation. Unfortunately the mochi’s are shipped from Japan and still frozen. She advised me to wait before eating them. I got impatient and bit into the red bean after 15 minutes to find that it hasn’t defrosted completely yet, but it was still good. I liked the red bean over the sakura.

This place is hidden in the middle of the Shirokiya. Took us two trips to finally find it. I was super excited to read about this place on Unilocal because I’ve had this in Japan. We LOVED the store in Japan. So I was super hyped up to have found this place. Having said that I did eat a Bubbie’s two days before and have a good place to compare it to.
When I order an ice cream mochi, i expect to taste the ice cream. Especially after my ice cream mochi experience at Bubbies! But you can barely taste the ice cream in the mochi here. We had sakura, orange cream, black sesame, café au lait, green bean, double mango. The sakura tasted like red bean paste with cream, double mango only had a tiny mango taste inside the cream, green bean was pretty gross, black sesame tasted like a regular mochi with black sesame –non ice cream like… Honestly it wasn’t very impressive. I’d just go to Bubbie’s from now on. Their ice cream actually has the ice cream flavor and taste.
This place was also more expensive than Bubbie’s. It ranges around $ 1.50−1.75 per mochi. Bubbie’s was $ 1 each. I would probably not come back to here unless I was desperate for mochi at that moment and was too lazy to drive to Bubbie’s.

I first read about these mochi cream things a while ago and had been looking forward to trying them, but earlier attempts in previous visits back home were thwarted due to long lines and big «SOLD OUT» signs.
Not sure if it is because the novelty has worn off for people or because no one wanted to be at Ala Moana a few days after Christmas or maybe they just made fresh ones, but this time there was no line and plenty of choices.
The woman behind the counter didn’t say anything about them being frozen like with other reviews, so I was a little surprised to find them hard. They defrosted pretty quickly though and the mochi soften quite nicely.
My favorites were the kinako, black sesame, and maccha. Some were kind of meh, like the sakura and the pudding. I like that the both the mochi and the bean paste filling are both whatever flavor you choose. The black sesame mochi cream even had crushed black sesame seeds in the koshian. Mmm.
These can quickly add up if you want to try lots of different flavors, but after my pretty much disastrous attempt to make strawberry cream daifuku, I think I’ll stick to buying them. Did I mention super hot mochi likes to stick to just about everything — skin, hair, clothes, countertop — except maybe whipped cream and strawberries?

RJR is a huge fan of this place, so we paid a visit to Shirokiya inside Ala Moana Center just to check it out. The mochi cream display is lovely, and you might be tempted to get one of each flavor.
We chose the chocolate and green tea flavors, as well as a flower blossom flavor (I can’t remember the name of it), for $ 1.50 each.
The woman behind the counter advised us to wait a few minutes before eating them so that the cream filling could soften. I couldn’t wait, but I should have because my taste buds became confused. Even though I knew it was not Bubbies, my taste buds were still expecting mochi ice cream. While I typically like mochi filled with bean paste, I think I still prefer my frozen mochi filled with ice cream.
Give it a try, you might love these Japanese sweet treats more than me!

This is the reason why I hate shopping at Christmas.
Large crowds.
Whining Kids.
Circling for parking.
Can’t find the right size.
Pushy people.
Slooooow sales clerks.
With that said, I always end up stuffing myself with unnecessary treats.
Until I found Mochi Cream.
Eerie shy my mutha fawkin say.
Perfect little treats to calm a stressful shopping day.
I had, azuki, caramel, green tea, chocolate.
The lady told me to wait 10 min.
I couldn’t.
It was rock hard.
I didn’t care.
I started with the green tea.
I had green powder all over my face.
Still delicious.
But 20 minutes later the others started to melt
I loved them even more.
Unnecessary treats? Who said.
These are my new necessity to the calm the storm.

HISTORICAL Unilocal NOTE:
11/​24/​2009 — This little mochi review became the very-​very-​FIRST-​ever ROTD for the STATE OF HAWAII… **
«That’s one step for Unilocal,one giant leap for Unilocal-​Kine…»

** (Aweswomeness, and THANKFUL that Honolulu got its first community manager (EMI) — bringing the island to the next Unilocal level with a Unilocal website with full features finally!
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RJR — Issue # 66 Mochi Cream — Don’t U Stop — Mochi Cream — Sh-​Boogie Bop Edition
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Now I’ve tried Mochi «Ice» Cream all over the west coast… But since living on this rock, in the middle of the ocean, I’ve heard of a little place that has a «slightly different variant» of this delectable Japanese sweet treat known as
MOCHI CREAMmmmm…
So of course, curiosity got to me and we found our way to Shirokiya’s at Ala Moana Shopping Center — Where inside, you will find an independent vendor counter near one of entrances called: Japanese Sweets Deli — Mochi Cream.
Now these mochi are slightly frozen, and inside the palm-​size treats they offer a multitude of sweet cream fillings that are paraded and showcased in a splendor of colors.
So of course, I had to give it a go and order one…
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So what did I think? Well after one bite of the Chocolate Banana, I had to order another…
The mochi cream is very light, enhanced with a flavored cream filling with the bean paste… Whereas on the other hand, mochi ice cream is flavored ice cream without the bean paste. And wow, it makes a sweet tasty creamy difference… something new… something cool… something for all to try…
So in short — Mochi Cream? — I dig it!
Now each time that I’m on walkabout at Ala Moana Shopping Center., I got to stop by & try one new flavor. Hope you enjoy them too! And by all means, bring some friends & share them…
*TAKE NOTE*
— This place is inside Shirokiya’s on the first floor near Macy’s and Starbucks Coffee.
— It’s no Crispy Cream or Pink Berry sensation yet… So there are no long lines — just step right up and order up!
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