Water-based Genbaku

I. What is Mizushin Genbaku?

Mizushin Genpai is a traditional Japanese snack that is eaten with soft rice cakes made from glutinous rice flour and then dipped in soybean flour. Instead of glutinous rice flour, a Japanese confectionery store uses agar to create "Mizushin-genbako," which is as transparent as a crystal ball. Those who have eaten it say it has a melt-in-your-mouth texture.

Two, Mizushin Genpai background

It is said that during the Warring States period, a Japanese general "Takeda Shingen" liked to eat a kind of glutinous rice cake before each battle, so the beginning of the Mizushin Genpai was made of glutinous rice flour into rice cakes and soybean flour together, and then a Japanese dessert store used agar instead of glutinous rice flour, thus creating a crystal ball like transparent "Mizushin Genpai". After that, a Japanese sweets shop used agar instead of glutinous rice flour, thus creating a crystal ball like "Mizushin Genpai" which was later made transparent by the people, and then called this confectionery Mizushin Genpai.