This recipe also includes some of my favorite glazes-try raspberry, matcha, chocolate, ube, black sesame, or several different options! (You can also just roll the doughnut holes in sugar or cinnamon sugar.) And to make them look extra fun, feel free to garnish with sprinkles, nuts, candy, or whatever you like. The dough can also be formed into simpler doughnut rings or just rolled into balls to make doughnut holes. It’s lighter, chewier and as an added bonus, it’s gluten-free. While some recipes also include all-purpose flour, I prefer the texture without it. Many mochi doughnut shops these days make this version, with various glazes in bright and beautiful colors.įor my adaptation I pull inspiration from both types by using mochiko and tapioca flours to give these doughnuts a little extra chew. Named after the Brazilian bread pão de queijo, the Pon de Ring was made of tapioca flour, shaped into eight smaller balls, connected in a circular shape that looked kind of like a teething ring. In 2003 Mister Donut, a Japanese doughnut chain, released the Pon de Ring. Called poi mochi, it consisted of deep-fried balls of mashed taro and mochiko, a Japanese short-grain sweet rice flour. Click here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation.The first form of the mochi doughnut came from Hawaii in the early 1990s. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods. Thanks for subscribing to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods.Ĭlick here to support Block Club with a tax-deductible donation. Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Mochinut Lincoln Park is open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Wong’s cafe is the second Mochinut to open in Chicago, following another owner’s location at 1139 W. We’ve been busy, and we get a lot of DePaul students, families and other locals in here.” Credit: Jake Wittich/Block Club Chicago Visitors can sign their name on the back wall of Mochinut. Wong had tried mochi doughnuts before, so she was familiar with the pastry, but she had never tried Mochinut’s spin on it until she opened the restaurant. “It’s funny because I always said I would never open a restaurant, but I guess I couldn’t run away form the genes of being in this business.” “I’m passionate about food, and my husband is a huge foodie, as well,” Wong said. Her parents opened their own restaurant when she was 5 years old. Wong grew up in a family of restaurateurs, she said. Credit: Provided/Sandy Wong Mochinut has bubble tea drinks that come in a variety of flavors. The Korean corndogs are made with rice flour and can come with toppings like diced potatoes, mozzarella, cheddar, crispy ramen, hot Cheetos and crunchy cereal, Wong said. Mochinut’s boba tea comes in several flavors, including brown sugar, ube, matcha, thai tea, coffee and milk tea, Wong said. A full list of flavors is on the chain’s website. Flavors include straberry, ube, coffee, chocolate and cookies and cream. The mochi doughnuts come in a variety of flavors that rotate on a weekly basis, Wong said. Credit: Jake Wittich/Block Club Chicago Mochinut’s donut menu rotates with new flavors on a weekly basis. “They come with all kinds of glazing, too.” Credit: Jake Wittich/Block Club Chicago Mochinut is decorated with a donut-shaped flower mural. “They’re really delicious and have this exterior crispiness but internal chewiness,” Wong said. The pastry originates from Hawaii and is a combination of American doughnuts and Japanese mochi. The cafe is most known for its mochi doughnuts, which are made with rice flour that makes the pastry stretchy and chewy with a texture completely different from traditional yeast or cake doughnuts, Wong said. Wong’s cafe is the 120th location of the Mochinut chain, which launched in Los Angeles in 2020. Fullerton Ave., celebrated its grand opening in January after quietly opening in December, owner Sandy Wong said. LINCOLN PARK - A cafe serving mochi doughnuts, bubble tea and Korean corndogs just opened along Fullerton Avenue in Lincoln Park.
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