日本小店推出风味“蜜桔饭团”_BEC初级作文

日本小店推出风味“蜜桔饭团”

Recently, a shop near the famous Dogo Onsen hot springs in Matsuyama City started to sell special “Original Satsuma Rice Balls” and needless to say we had to check it out.

The rice balls are pretty much exactly what they sound like, rice flavored with locally grown oranges rolled up into a ball. At first look, they even look like a little orange. The rice balls are about the size of a satsuma and even have a real leaf attached to the top.

So far the presentation was great for these little rice balls. It’s hard to get much cuter than a rice ball packaged up to look like an orange. But the time of judgement came—would the taste of rice and the tartness of an orange go together? The rice had such an orange tint and it was hard to believe that the tartness and acidity of an orange would translate well to rice.

The rice ball smelled like freshly squeezed orange juice as soon as it was unwrapped. Breaking apart the rice ball, you can see there is some chicken and fried tofu mixed in.

Taking a few nibbles of the rice ball was a huge surprise for the tongue. First, there was the familiar taste of rice and then an intense blast of orange. Something about the sourness, sweetness and bitterness of the area’s famed satsumas really mixed well with the rice. It almost tasted like the rice was cooked with bits of the peel to give it that really strong citrus flavor. The chicken and the tofu pieces were actually pretty bland and the satsuma flavor takes over the whole rice ball.