If anyone wonders about traditional Japanese sweets, here they are:
The first ones, the yellow ones are made from sweet potatoes. These are not sweetend European-kind potatoes, but rather these:
They are naturally sweet, and there are many different kinds of sweets made out of these, such as cakes or buns. They even use it as a filling in ordinary bread buns.
The second sweet, the pink one, is made of rice. As I understood, they cook rice, and then batter it for couple of hours, until it becomes one solid, sticky mass. Then they form it and add other ingredients. Usually sold as odango:
The first ones, the yellow ones are made from sweet potatoes. These are not sweetend European-kind potatoes, but rather these:
They are naturally sweet, and there are many different kinds of sweets made out of these, such as cakes or buns. They even use it as a filling in ordinary bread buns.
The second sweet, the pink one, is made of rice. As I understood, they cook rice, and then batter it for couple of hours, until it becomes one solid, sticky mass. Then they form it and add other ingredients. Usually sold as odango:
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