Yatsuhashi
Yatsuhashi is a Japanese confectionery sold mainly as a souvenir sweet. It is one of the best known meibutsu of Kyoto. It is made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and cinnamon. Baked, it is similar to senbei. The shape of the hard crackers resembles a Japanese harp or koto or a bamboo stalk cut lengthways.
Raw, unbaked yatsuhashi has a soft, mochi-like texture and is often eaten wrapped around red bean paste. The unbaked yatsuhashi is cut into a square shape after being rolled very thin, and folded in half diagonally to make a triangle shape, with the red bean paste inside. Unbaked yatsuhashi may also come in a variety of different flavours. Popular flavours include cinnamon and matcha. The shape of the steamed mochi is a rectangular shape, and is eaten as it is, after being rolled out and cut into shape.
