Oh man, tiramisu, I love tiramisu. Creamy, coffee, alcohol and sponge all in one. Lovely stuff. Do the Japanese eat it the same way? Well, it looks pretty similar from the box art, though they seem to have put it in mochi form judging from the little balls on the front.

It is indeed what they have done. We have a tiramisu confection transformed into bite sized daifuku. I haven’t had daifuku in a long, long time so this should be tasty. The box opens up with a lovely little tab and inside is a plastic tray, not too dissimilar to the recent Dars bar I had. There are two trays here though, each one housing four little sticky daifuku balls.

As soon as I opened a tray it was a case of BAM! Wake up and smell the coffee! Well ok, it wasn’t that strong, but these definitely had a nice aroma about them. They’re covered in a floury, sugary type substance, it doesn’t get on your fingers, it isn’t grainy, I’m not sure what it is. The daifuku are, as they should be, very chewy and bang on form with texture. Inside them is a thick white cream and the taste is rather hard to describe. A little bit of coffee, a little bit of cream, and yet something ever so slightly odd about it. Perhaps the daifuku? I honestly don’t know, but before I knew it I had eaten all 8 of these little balls and that was it, finished. Bit of a shame really, I was beginning to like them.

Well, not for everyone, not even necessarily for tiramisu fans. There’s something here I liked, something here I didn’t, it’s hard to sum this up. Unique? Yeah, definitely that. Very Japanese.