Japanese Sweets: Manju Steamed Cake with 5 Flavors - Matcha, Chestnut, Milk, Sweet Red Beans & White Kidney Beans and Soba) 18 Pcs

First off, everything written is in Japanese, so figuring out what flavor is which will require taste testing. These tiny delights, and they are a delightful treat, start out, at first, as, "hmmm, so, what's the big deal". After finishing one though, suddenly the flavors begin to blossom inside the mouth, and the sweetness hits! Definitely one treat is all that's needed to satisfy.I am a big fan of manga and anime, so love trying out foods that can be purchased, or making recipes of dishes I want to try out. So far, I am loving this Japanese food adventure.

Good Japanese treat

They are an acquired taste if you aren’t used Asian treats but they are really tasty. The filling is adequate and they aren’t too dry. The texture was a little too hard for my brain to understand or even explain, but i didn’t dislike them.

These are very moist cakes , but very very sweet ! And I am someone who indulges daily in sweet treat whether it be a cookie , piece of chocolate or cake. But these are very sweet . It’s very dense. And the filling with the cake itself is very sweet. I had to have half of the actual cake itself due to how sweet it was. If you’re going to indulge in these, you definitely need a hot tea or bland, hot cup of coffee , or some type of drink that is not sweetened. They’re very tasty fillings and perfect size, just wish the filling was a little less sweet.

Very great! Delicious product, fresh, just like I remember in my youth…

As someone forever broadening their epicurean tastes and fascinated by anything-you-can't-get-in-America, I bought these. I honestly didn't know what to expect besides that I wouldn't be able to read the labels of what I was eating, and that these definitely were NOT daifuku (a delicious, sweet gummy-marshmallowy mochi that I've been addicted to for awhile).Disclaimer: if you are one of those people who are scared to eat anything with beans in them, STOP. A lot of Japanese sweets, for some reason, use beans. Amazingly, most don't taste bad. In fact, they don't even taste like beans, and I love a big bowl of tex-mex chili. Chances are you'll probably like these because they don't taste like some crazy chili-cake mashup.So what are these? Well, calling them "cakes" would be a confusing misnomer for Americans. There are 18 individually wrapped packets, each containing a little round bun. Some are a little larger than a JFK dollar and others the size of a quarter. The texture is like a soft cookie/pastry shell, and inside is a thick sugary filling, similar to marzipan but fluffier. The fillings were all different, yet very subtle. Some (the big round ones with the reddish top) have little chewy bits of... something... in them, and others have a creamy, white filling. The listing states that these are soba (buckwheat), milk, chestnut, red bean, white bean and matcha, but everything on the package is in Japanese so it's hard to tell what is what besides the matcha ones (*insert kanji translators here*).Now, about the sweetness. Some say it's not very sweet. Well, obviously there's something very wrong with me, because I am one of those people who can down an entire container of Pillsbury fudge frosting (hey, don't judge me). These cakes are very small, so with the first bite I didn't think they were very sweet. I had another, and then another, and for SOME reason the sugar just hit me. I flew through the roof. Maybe it has something to do with there being real sugar instead of HFCS in the ingredients, or maybe I just needed to have some freshly-brewed matcha to counterbalance the sweetness. I don't like tea but that might have to change. Who knows. In any case, I can only stomach 1 or 2 a day, no more. They are delicious though, so I will *probably* buy another package when I need more stuff to get my Amazon free shipping. ;)Edit: Ugh, I was wrong... there IS HFCS in the ingredients. Bummer. Oh well, all in moderation folks.

Whatever flavors these are supposed to be, they taste like I ate a spoonful of sugar taste. Tried one of each and couldn’t tell a difference in flavor at all. WAY too sweet, couldn’t even finish a single one. Ended up throwing them away

My favorite snack, tastes really good