Anmitsu - Japanese Dessert

What did I get this time at the Asian grocery store?  

Anmitsu is a Japanese dessert invited in the Meiji era. 

Traditionally, you will see it come with anko (adzuki beans) with mochi of some kind.  As you know the Japanese gets creative with their food, and you will see the non-traditional places sells with it with seasonal fruit.  Serves it hot or cold, and some comes with syrup, or fruit compost. 

The one I got from the store is pretty straight forward.  The white stuff is mochi, not particularly chewy.  Red stuff is the adzuki bean stew.

Since it's cold, it is sitting on top of a layer of green tea ice cream.  This is a traditional Japanese flavor as they come.  That is very signature flavor palette of Japanese dessert.  Both goes well together, green tea brings a tad of bitter, and adzuki brings a bit of sweet and tang.  As you make the red bean, you boil them in water mix with sugar and boil it over a bit of time so it's softens.  Of course, naturally it'll break apart and it becomes stew-like.  It is a popular Chinese dessert as well.