Trader Joe’s Brown Sugar BOBA MOCHI treats

I love mochi generally – specially I mean the soft confections one can find in an Asian bakery or grocery store. Those a pillowy, soft very chewy sweet confections made from sweet sticky rice and that have something on the inside, for example sweet red bean paste. Trader Joe’s sells something frozen which are mochi with ice cream on the inside, frozen. They are really good.

But this new item is a small bite size treat which is a little like that but different. These have a thin layer of something like mochi and an interior of “boba” like tapioca in the center. They are each wrapped individually.

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/brown-sugar-boba-mochi-076029

“You can think of this candy version as a deconstructed bubble beverage, where the center of each piece is precisely that pearl (aka tapioca ball) that usually lives at the bottom of your Boba cup. Each individual, caramelized- brown-sugar flavored pearl is surrounded by a creamy coating, then given a classic Japanese rice-wrapper treatment.”

If these sound good, give them a try and see what you think.

I found them OK but didn’t love it. My wife at first thought the were just OK however she kept eating them. Lo and behold she decided she liked them after all (she finished the bag).

I can take or leave these but I love those actual mochi treats with ice cream inside that Trader Joe’s sells.

Brown Sugar Boba Mochi treats were $2.99 a bag. I would buy them again, for my wife! Me, I’ll get the ice cream mochi instead!