Adzuki Mizu Yokan

Adzuki Mizu Yokan

(Japan Crate: July 2015)

[Japan crate description: A more traditional Japanese dessert, this red bean snack is sweet with a gel-like texture.]

Kimberly Says:

All right, I'd been putting this off for a while. I had doubts and concerns.

When we finally got around to trying it, though, it was...not terrible. 
We started out just eating it plain by the spoonful. If it had been more...well, every time I hit a big chunk of bean it put me off. It if had been more like jelly than jam, more of a puree, without chunks of bean, I think I would have loved it.

Or if we had had something other than italian herb ritz crackers, because the next thing we tried was spreading it on crackers. Plain Ritz, or maybe a sweet rather than savory cracker, would have been delicious.

Blurry, but tasty. x3

Melissa Says:

It looks like the cranberry stuff served at Thanksgiving, but tastes like beans. It's a tad odd. It's incredibly sweet-tasting, with the texture of pureed beans. That is, until you hit a whole bean. Then it's more unique. It's pretty good spread on a cracker. I probably wouldn't eat it again, but it wasn't bad once.