All this ads up to a long line of customers outside the two stores that do sell it, every singe day! Yes, you can make it yourselfįor those of us who cannot travel all the way to the land of the rising sun to savour this water cake, or afford the exorbitant $8 charged for it in New York, the only remaining course of action is to make it ourselves.

Mizu in Japanese means ‘water’, Mochi is a kind of dessert made with glutinous rice flour and Shingen Mochi is a trademarked dessert made by the Kinseiken Seika Company.īecause of the delicate temperament of this particular dessert, it is sold in very few of their stores, cannot be reserved in advance nor taken away from the store. The water sourced from the mountains is so tasty that it needs no other flavouring. It is made from fresh water taken from the Japanese Alps. The Kinseiken Seika Company are the proud creators of this simple yet magnificent dessert. If it’s not eaten in 30 minutes, you don’t get to eat it at all! The origins of the Water Cake Isn’t it fascinating, that it comes with it’s own self-destruct mechanism. We’ve all seen the Buzzfeed videos of a magnificent water cake that’s wildly popular in Japan. It looks like a water drop that can be held in your hands, bitten into, but dissolves into water within just 30 minutes of being served.

Rainbow raindrop cake