Sweet and Softly Soft Daifuku -Mochigome-no-Sato Nayoro in Nayoro (Furen)-

Soft Daifuku (ソフト大福) is a rice cake stuffed with sweetened bean jam sold at roadside station "Mochigome-no-sato Nayoro (もち米の里なよろ)" in Fuuren, Nayoro city located in the northern part of Asahikawa city. The Furen is the largest producing district of glutinous rice in Hokkaido, and it is known as the producing district supplying raw materials of "Akafuku rice cake in Ise (伊勢の赤福餅)" and "Millet dumpling in Okayama (岡山のきび団子)". Those are famous Japanese-style cakes. Hakucho-mochi glutinous rice is used. The merit of Hakucho-mochi glutinous rice that it is not hardened even if time passes. It is good material for Soft Daifuku.

Soft Daifuku has 18 kinds of flavors, and I ate Soft Daifuku with blue honeysuckle flavor and the Soft Daifuku with cheese flavor this time. The price is JPY 126 per one. Outside rice cake had elasticity and soft chewy texture. Sweetness of bean jam was rich taste. It was too sweet to me, but there are many fans around me. It is excellent cake for a person having a sweet tooth.

Soft Daifuku is found on Amazon.

A page of Nayoro is here