Robot Claw

These were the final two candy making kits we recently opened. Let’s begin with the one on the left:

Now this was unexpected! The tray contains dehydrated mochi (sticky rice cakes), roasted soybean powder and thick chocolate sauce (these last two were in packets I forgot to photograph).

The mochi pellets needed to be rehydrated, which simple meant pouring a bit of water on top. It happened quickly and they approximately doubled in size:

A quick dip in the chocolate and powder and it’s finished:

They were good! In fact this was the first item (this week) where we ate it all! Two thumbs up.

The last item was a cheesecake kit, which was the most complicated of the week (although, as with all of these, still very easy). This is by Kracie, a name known to us because of the quality of some of their other products.

One packet was dissolved to make a thick cream, then a second was added which, when stirred in, turned the cream into a fluffy pudding.

The blueberry sauce was made by dissolving a third packet, and then a topping of biscuit crumbles went on top of the ‘cake’.

This was excellent. It had the correct texture and tasted delicious, and once again we ate it all. Another impressive product from Kracie!

Candy making kits are a big deal in Japan and it seems every time we’re there we find new ones to try. I’m sure you’ll see another series like this one day.

This is a relative of the drink kits from Monday, only this one makes a magical potion.

One of the packets is dissolved in water in the plastic potion bottle, which produces a vivid pink solution:

It looked a bit more purple in real life, since the above photo was taken in direct sunlight.

The next step was to add the second packet. The instructions advised to put the bottle on a tray due to overflow, and suggested the colour would change.

And… it did! The reaction took some time to begin, but was quite effective as it was going. This would be very exciting for a child.

The taste? Just the usual sickly sweet of these sorts of drinks. I consider myself a top-tier fan of sugar but even these are beyond my ability to enjoy.

A fun little experiment then, but not worth drinking 🙂

Today we have a Korean frog-egg kit and…. something else.

The frog kit contained powder that was dissolved in water, and then the the green liquid was droppered into the fluid:

I’d done something like this in a previous candy making kit, and it was no less impressive this time. The idea here is you’re making frog eggs, and it worked well and they looked convincing:

They were very slippery and difficult to remove, but here they are on the included spoon:

The taste was a subtle lime, although my friend (who gave this to me) thought it should have been cola! Regardless, this was a success 🙂

The other ‘kit’ – called Strange Syrup – contained a tray, a plastic spatula, and four little sachets of thick coloured syrup.

These had the consistency of thick honey, and were in four flavours: apple, orange, lemon and ramune (a Japanese sweet soda).

After we added them to the tray…. we didn’t know what to do. The instructions for the kit were terrible, and I even went to the company website and downloaded expanded instructions which were equally vague:

It seemed this was not so much a candy kit as a packet of four flavours you could mix together to use as a drink base? So with the remaining packets I did exactly this:

I then mixed them all together and then dissolved it in water.

It tasted awful. Truly, truly abysmal. I couldn’t pour it out fast enough.

So was this even a candy kit? Or a drink kit? I don’t know. Either way, it was a failure!