Warabimochi Kamakura

($6.90) I felt that matcha w/o milk was really strong bitter taste if you felt bloated or oily afer lunch to drink.

finally trying this super popular place for their warabi mochi. ordered the matcha drink with the jelly and while i agree that the mochi is very soft, i felt that the overall drink was a lil sweet for me

Est.since 1991, this popular warabimochi has opened its first outpost in Singapore in April (for this cuppage plaza outlet that we decide to try). We queued here about <15 mins on weekday (not too bad, eh?😃) We ordered box of 5 warabimochi only (No desserts or drinks). They gave us a pair of chopsticks and bamboo pick along with kuromitsu syrup made from pure 100% brown sugar from Okinawa.
Biting the first piece and we both agree this is no ordinary one. It's light, fresh and bouncy (not chewy or stiff like other commercial ones). The roasted kinako soybean powder are plenty and coat the whole warabimochi nicely. We will let you decide when you try. It's definitely in a must try snack list for us! 💯
📍#01-02 Taste orchard (Cuppage Plaza)
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Finally got around to queue for this as there was always a long snaking line whenever I passed by. Hype is still present for this! Although the line looked long, it moved pretty quickly so just stay strong and scroll Tiktok for abit :)

We got the Box of 5 ($7.90) as well as the Asakawa-en Matcha ($5.90 for small). The warabimochi was perfect - soft, starchy, chewy, sizeable, and generously coated with kinako powder. Exactly as how I had it in Japan previously. Drizzle the kuromitsu syrup and it was all the more better. The Matcha drink was good too but I thought there was too much chipped cream making it too sweet, and the warabimochi in the drink felt more like chinchow to me HAHA

For those whom have been looking around social media and actively scrolling through food-related content on the F&B establishments all across the island, it is likely so that one would have come across Warabimochi Kamakura at one point of time. A brand that hails from Japan with more than 50 outlets operating within the country, Warabimochi Kamakura had opened their first outpost in Singapore a couple of months ago at the new One Holland Village shopping mall; itself garnering a sizeable crowd that resulted in long queues for their Warabimochi and Warabimochi drinks that often sees the outlet sold out of their products before closing time. Warabimochi Kamakura had since opened their second location in Singapore; this time round situated at the ground floor of Taste Orchard (i.e. the building formerly known as OG Orchard Point), and itself taking a kiosk space that is located beside the outlet of Chirashi King Kong there and also in front of YUGO Marshmallow Biscuits 小玉雪Q酥. Whilst being a kiosk that operates as a takeaway shop much like its One Holland Village location, patrons can still possibly do a dine-in for Warabimochi Kamakura’s Taste Orchard location due to sheer amount of communal dine-in seating space situated within Taste Orchard — all that without the mad queues that one might experience at the outlet at One Holland Village. The menu at Warabimochi Kamakura’s location at Taste Orchard is pretty much the same as that of their One Holland Village location; the menu is being split into categories consisting of Warabimochi, Warabimochi Drinks and Drinks; the former two being mostly the reason why crowds have been forming up at the One Holland Village location ever since its opening.

Having read quite a fair bit about Warabimochi Kamakura via the various posts mentioning the establishment on social media, one thing of which that w could not miss out on was the Warabimochi; this is especially so considering how we are pretty much fans of Warabimochi, and have been craving for one for quite sometime prior to our visit to Warabimochi Kamakura at their Taste Orchard location. Warabimochi Kamakura primarily serves their Warabimochi in three sizes — 2-piece cup, 5-piece box or a 10-piece box. Other options include the ability to add a scoop of ice-cream for the 2-piece cup, as well as the option to have the 10-piece box served in a Paulownia Wooden Box. We went with 5-piece box for our order. All orders for the Warabimochi comes with a small container of Kuromitsu Syrup on the side; any requests for more Kuromitsu Syrup would be considered chargeable. Coming in a paper box, the Warabimochi comes in slabs arranged neatly in the box; the Warabimochi also coming with a good portion of Kinako powder that coats the Warabimochi. Whilst the Warabimochi is suitably dense and rather sticky making it a little difficult to break them into smaller bite-sized pieces. That being said, each piece is soft and sticky — we were quite surprised by its consistency considering how it was not particularly squishy nor chewy when compared to other more commercially-made Warabimochi that we have had in the past; itself, for a lack of a better term, being more slime-like. It is also well noted that the Warabimochi also does not stick to the teeth as well. The addition of Kinako powder and Kuronitsu is a very classic combination to the Warabimochi; one that adds a nutty note and an earthy and sweet flavour profile to the Warabimochi.

There has also been quite a lot of mentions on the Warabimochi Drinks which Warabimochi Kamakura serves up — while most of the posts mentioned about the Strawberry Milk variant, the Strawberry variants of the Warabimochi Drink were sold out during our visit. We found ourselves going for the Tenku No Houjicha which is essentially unsweetened Houjicha with whipped cream featuring a brown sugar mochi base. Patrons are instructed to give the Warabimochi Drink a good stir before taking a sip to break up the mochi; the addition of the mochi adds sweetness to the roasty and earthy Houjicha; all that with some soft, chewy and slurpy mochi bits to chew on. Considering the quality of the Warabimochi that is being served at Warabimochi Kamakura, it is little surprise how the establishment has garnered such a crowd that are looking forward to give their offerings a try — their Warabimochi would come off as one of the best, if not the best Warabimochi that we have come across around the island thus far. That being said, we would probably prefer to give them a go at their Taste Orchard location — there is lesser of a crowd that translate to significantly shorter waiting times with lesser chances of items selling out in the middle of the day; we also probably would not choose to queue in-line for extensive periods of time over it (or any food item in particular). One can only wonder if the brand will make a further expansion across the island given its popularity here; though definitely a place to add to the bucket list of places to try especially for Warabimochi lovers out there!

✨Guess who found no queue at @ at their newest outlet at Taste Orchard ✨ inside @haomartsg ✨ got their signature 5 pc warabi mochi box ($7.90) and Asakawa-en matcha ($7.90) which isn’t the cheapest 🙃 but the 5 pcs are huge! like 1 is enough for me tbh😂 but i do hear ppl finishing a whole box on their own 👏 definitely one of the best mochis i had and very authentic (still have a distinctive soy difference from ur usual muahchee 😂)✨ the matcha is not as rich as i thought but still well balanced in sweet and earthy bitterness. 
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overall, i don’t mind getting the mochi again if there is no queue like this 🥴👅
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