Does anybody know about typical Japanese sweets?

[Sashimister]

Nevermind. Wasted my time explaining.

[Coraline]

[quote=Sashimister;830870]Why do you think what you had at the festival(?) was daifuku??

Because I saw some pictures of daifuku and it looks like the sweets I ate at the festival. Although I just ate 2 or 3 of them there I think 'my disastrous' ones almost taste the same... And because of the colour. There were different coloured sweets offered. I just took the white ones. So I think it should be daifuku.
Please don't say I ate something different. I don't want to start searching again...

P.S.: The festival was an event for one weekend where many different things from Japan were shown. You could buy typical Japanese food, clothes and other things. There were some performances of different martial arts, tea ceremonies and lots of other things. Although I don't know whether there were shown real typical Japanese things or just the cliché it was awesome and just great!

[Sashimister]

Fine. If you don't want the opinion of a real Japanese person in your thread, I'll be more than happy to get out. Keep talking to the others who clearly don't seem to know much about Japanese confectionary.

[Coraline]

Ehm, I didn't mean to offend you... Of course I want the opionion of Japanese people. That's why I am here. -.-

[chiuchimu]

I'm Japanese living in CA. I can tell you, even with the proper ingredients, it would be hard to make it yourself.

It's like Barbecue. Specialist restaurants do barbecue way better than the average Joe. But, home experts, do barbecue better than most restaurant.

So, chances are yours won't come out that good at first. But if you keep at it and study, you might make some that are better than the average in Japan.

I can't help but think there has to be an Asian market carrying Japanese wagashi or partially made ingredients within 100 miles from your location. It would be so much easier that way.

In my case, I got interested in making Egusi with Fufu, an African dish, but the ingredient aren't sold at the usual market. But by asking around, I found at least 4 African markets within 70 miles from were I am and more over, one small market 4~5 miles from my home. I drove that road at least once a month never knowing a small African market was there for years!

Ask around!

[Coraline]

okay... I will practise a lot. I want to be able to make them tasty! Hopefully I will manage someday. :P I will search for the asia-shop. Thanks for the tip. n_n

[xYinniex]

I always get given those nicely decorated boxes of mochi with green tea powder whenever friends from Japan visit.