It has a very different-from-the-usual concept of dining, but more about that later. So, when I heard of this eatery called My Cousin’s Place in HSR Layout serving the cake, I had to drag the husband there, one fine weekend, to sample it! (My Cousin’s Place, BTW, earlier used to operate in Electronic City, and has now shifted to HSR Layout. Thanks to this fragility, the cake isn’t available at a lot of places, even in Japan. I understand the dessert dissolves into a puddle of water within 30 minutes of being served. This dessert was all over the international food world in 2016 and, of course, I wanted a bite of it, too. Apparently, the company makes the cake using fresh water from the Japanese Alps, which is so sweet and tasty that the cake doesn’t need any other flavouring! Thus, ‘ Mizu Shignen Mochi‘ literally translates to ‘ water cake‘. ‘ Mizu‘, in Japanese, means ‘water’, and ‘ Shingen Mochi‘ is a kind of rice cake that is popular all over Japan. Popularly known as ‘Raindrop Cake’, Mizu Shingen Mochi is the brainchild of the Kinseiken Seika company of Japan. That is Mizu Shingen Mochi, the Japanese dessert, for you. The taste too is exactly the same – just like a drop of water. Cut into it, and you feel its lightness – it feels like you are cutting a drop of water. Imagine a cake that looks exactly like a drop of water.

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Too bad the location lacks a washroom as well as seating space. I liked the egg waffle combo from The Moo Bar and would be interested in having one again the future. You really need the syrup and soybean flour for the flavour. They were definitely a bit of a novelty dessert. Also on the side was a soybean flour for some added texture. The Matcha Raindrop Cake came with a matcha syrup while the Strawberry one had strawberry syrup and sliced strawberries. The cake itself has a gelatinous texture but is tasteless. The raindrop cake originated in Japan and is essentially a zero-calorie dessert made from agar. The Raindrop Cake is not something I had tried before (not even at the Richmond Night Market). The ube ice cream was also solid and the toppings made for a fun, and colourful presentation. The egg waffle was on point being nicely crispy on the outside and tasted like a combination of ube and coconut. I went with an ube coconut egg waffle with ube ice cream, rose petals, pocky sticks, sprinkles, fruity pebbles, mochi and rose sauce ($8.00). I was particularly interested in trying The Moo Bar’s dessert options because I didn’t know of any dessert spots in Vancouver that offered the Raindrop Cake and such interesting egg waffles combos. They also have egg waffles which are sold on its own or can be combined with ice cream and toppings. The drinks can be customized for sweetness level.įor toppings, they offer honey boba, taro pudding, egg pudding, grass jelly and chocolate pudding (+$0.50).ĭessert options include Raindrop Cake ($5.00) in three flavours: original, matcha and strawberry. They also have Vietnamese coffee drinks including House Special Coffee, Vietnamese Black Coffee, and Salted Cheese Black Coffee. The Moo Bar offers hot and cold bubble tea drinks ($4.50) like Moo Bar Special, Jasmine Moo Tea, Oolong Moo Tea and so forth. I definitely thought it was an uncomfortable set up overall for customers. The Moo Bar didn’t have air conditioning and it actually felt hotter inside than outside. On the day of my visit, it was 28 degrees outside. Moo Bar has no customer washroom available so you can’t even wash your hands if they get sticky from the desserts. There is no seating inside or outside but they do have high top tables and a counter by the window for you to perch on while you have your dessert. The place might as well be a walk-up counter. Unfortunately, the Moo Bar’s interior is probably the least customer-friendly of all dessert places I’ve been to with an actual storefront. When I visited Seattle this past summer, I decided to stop by The Moo Bar to try some of their sweet treats. I came to know about the place after seeing their posts get hyped up on Instagram. The Moo Bar is a dessert spot located in the South Lake Union area of Seattle.

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