HOW would you like to eat cake as much as you can without getting fat? Enter mizu shingen mochi, known as water cake or raindrop cake. It’s made of mineral water and agar, a kind of gelatin made from seaweed. This unique Japanese dessert that looks like a breast implant is often served with kuromitsu (sugary syrup) and kinako (roasted soybean flour) was first introduced by Kinseiken Seika Co. in 2014.

It melts in your mouth and must be eaten in 20 minutes. Otherwise, it would melt in your plate and evaporate, according to Hayley Maitland of Vogue, a British fashion magazine. Despite the brief gustatory sensation it offers, the water cake became a viral sensation that people made efforts to visit any place wherever it was served.

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