Japanese monaka, a teatime sweet treat. Monaka - mochi flour wafers - are traditionally filled with azuki bean paste, but these days fillings include ice cream, whipped cream and cream cheese.

This popular wagashi and game character mash-up comes courtesy of sweets maker Tsuruya Yoshinobu and beloved Nintendo protagonist Kirby. The sweet chosen for this collaboration is monaka. This ...

Brown sugar is called "kokuto" in Japanese, literally “black sugar,” and the hope is that whoever eats the prosperity monaka will end up “in the black” for the current fiscal year. However, when you ...

Dorayaki, a common Japanese dessert that resembles a mini pancake sandwich, comes filled with confit honeycrisp apples and mascarpone, or sweet potato cake and a spiced cream.Monaka — an ...

At New Year's, "fukuume" monaka mochi wafer sweets are prepared in the plum blossom shape of the crest of the Maeda clan, which ruled the Kaga domain (covering much of modern Ishikawa and Toyama ...

Earlier this year my sister organised a family brunch at a Japanese cafe in Mona Vale to surprisingly little argument considering that 1) everyone lives at least 45 minutes away from Mona Vale and ...

Cafe Monaka in Mona Vale is part cafe, part tea house and part retail shop. James Brickwood. Initially he put his sushi chef training to work at some of Sydney's high-end Japanese restaurants, but ...