Anything can be made in a brown sugar bubble tea flavour these days — including ice cream and KFC's egg tarts. Now there's even BBT mochi. 8days.sg recently discovered that Sheng Siong has started stocking two types of bubble milk tea mochi at their supermarket outlets. These lacto vegetarian-friendly mochis, sold in box and packet packaging, are imported from Taiwan and made by the same Taiwanese F&B company called Royal Family, a traditional brand well-known for making boxed souvenir mochi.

As with bubble tea anything, these mochis are incredibly popular; there were just a couple of boxes/packets left on the shelf at the Sheng Siong outlet in Taman Jurong that we visited.

This looks like a typical box of mochi sold at Taiwanese airports and souvenir snack shops. There are six mochis in a box, all nestling in a plastic tray. They are not individually wrapped, though, so it’s best shared on the spot with your squad.

Each fat mochi comes with a too-heavy dusting of flour, with a pillowy, bouncy texture. The glutinous rice flour skin itself is pretty nice; soft, silky and stuffed with a “bubble tea milk paste” that’s made with sword beans, black tea powder and brown sugar. The mochi also has a chewy, gummy-like ‘tapioca pearl’ in its centre. Unfortunately, the filling just tastes super sweet with a hint of earthy brown sugar, and nothing like bubble milk tea.

This packet has eight individually wrapped mochis, though they are each about half the size of the boxed mochi.

Taste-wise, they are the same thing as their boxed counterpart, except you can finish this petite, bite-sized munchkin in one chomp. It’s probably for the better, since it’s so sweet that we had difficulty finishing the bigger mochi.

Available at Sheng Siong supermarkets islandwide. For a list of outlets, click here.

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