This flavor feels like. . .

When I mentioned this assignment to a friend of mine, she offered to give me something that she buys from a Japanese grocery store. It was a vanilla ice cream and red bean paste sandwich in the shape of a fish. It had a smooth sugar-cone shell and felt surprisingly light, almost illogically. The rest bean paste was a small layer and gave the treat a sweeter taste. I had assumed it would be a bitter taste since that’s what I think of from “bean”. It was a simple extra ingredient that I hadn’t had before, but it tasted great.

I decided to wait a week to think of different things I could create from this experiment. However, since it was spring break, I decided to not think about college and feel like I was actually having a break.

         At about two in the morning, I went searching through the house to see what ideas I could muster up from random objects. I found a bag of cotton balls and the idea to create a cotton ball-shaped fish popped in my head, so I stuck with it. The dessert sandwich was very light in weight, which is resembled in this handcrafted cloud fish (I call it that because it sounds kind of poetic).