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Mochi is a Japanese rice dough, pounded from glutinous rice until it's smooth and stretchy, and mochi ice cream wraps a ball of ice cream inside it. The dough is what makes the format work in a freezer. Ordinary dough would set hard, but glutinous rice starch stays soft and pliable at low temperature, so a mochi can be eaten straight from frozen while a pastry couldn't. It arrived in British supermarkets recently enough that it's still shelved as a novelty rather than a staple. Chocolate and hazelnut is a Western flavour rather than a Japanese one, which is true of most of the range.
