Fugetsudo CM

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They have tea, mochi, donuts, cakes, sweets etc. I was looking for mochi for my little Unilocal buddy, and happened to find these «mochi» (rice cake in Japanese).
This is the review only for their «mochi».
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— Locale Destination —
It’s on Paularino Ave and Bristol St in Costa Mesa.
It’s in «Mitsuwa» (Japanese supermarket) building — actually in front of the supermarket’s registers. It’s small yet full of «Japanese» sweets. The staff were Japanese and friendly ones. Parking here isn’t good — full of dumb Asian drivers, very tight spacing between cars and limited amount of parking spots. So be careful.
Payments: Drinks are cash only. You can use credit cards for everything else.
Mochi Flavors: Tons — strawberry, darjeeling tea, taro, green tea etc. Something interesting, challenging, and unique ones. Very interesting.
Mochi Price: Each small mochi costs $ 1.80 to $ 2 or so. It’s kinda expensive, but the flavor quality is there.
In the show case, you see lots of colorful mochi as you see on my pictures. But somehow they gave me the frozen ones, not from the show case. Why? I don’t understand the business practice. They told me «it was frozen, so you need to thaw them a little bit before you eat them». I was skeptical whether if mochi would stand for freezing or not. It turned out it was OK. I left them in the fridge for a while, and the mochi got softer.
— Gluttony Expedition —
The texture of mochi is very similar to the one you get for «mango mochi» at «Phoenix» (Taiwanese sweet shop located all over the Asian/​Taiwanese communities), not so much of ordinary Japanese mochi I could think of (thicker in texture for «daifuku» –mochi stuffed sweet paste inside). It’s a lighter and stringier than usual mochi texture. There’re various mochi textures exist in Japan, but this was a lot lighter than usual. The sweetness of «an» (sweet paste in Japanese) was very light. The flavors were very interesting and strong. Very interesting as a whole.
Blueberry yogurt mochi: Lots of blueberry flavor with light «an» (Japanese sweet paste, not red bean paste since it was sorta white). Not bad.
Darjeeling mochi: Sea salt cream like stuff had a Darjeeling flavor. It also had a light «an» (Japanese sweet paste). Very interesting textured stuffing. Good!
Caramel pudding mochi — Custard cream with a hint of pudding sauce (barely taste it) inside of the soft mochi (rice cake). Not bad!
— Conqueror’s Deduction —
Very light mochi with full of flavors. It’s a bit expensive, but this is interesting.
They have so many flavor varieties, so it would be great to get so many different flavors and share with your friends. Very interesting.

Had to try the green tea that everyone was drinking in the food court at Mitsuwa. This is at the place that sells manju and mochi, and all those really expensive, perfectly shaped desserts.
It’s $ 1.63 a cup and it is sweetened. I was little hesitant about that because I normally don’t sweeten any iced tea, but it wasn’t too bad. The tea was refreshing and I just added a little bit of water to it to dilute the sweetness. They can’t adjust the level of sugar in it since it just comes from a dispenser.
I can’t remember if it was cash only or not, but everyone in front of me paid cash. They do sell expensive desserts for gifts, so you would think they would take credit cards, which is different from the other stores that only sell food.

OK, so the only thing I can review about this place is their iced green tea. We were at the food court of Mitsuwa and I saw all these people drinking green tea (which looked like the one you get at Fukada) in plastic cups. We had gone to Fukada on Labor Day hoping to grab some lunch, but alas, it was not to be. They were closed. So therefore, no green tea for me. After ordering our food and finding a seat, I walked over to Fugetsudo and ordered 2 iced green teas. They were only $ 1.50 each so I was really happy about that. As I walked, I took a sip. OMG, there was sugar in it. OK, given there wasn’t a whole lot, but it still was sweet. I like the bitter aftertaste of green tea so I didn’t really take to it. Hubby ended up drinking both cups.
I think they should at least label it sweetened or, give you the option of adding your own. 1-​star off for that.