In Japan sweets are sublime.  Let me give you an example. The other day I was picking up some sticky rice cakes for my mother-in-law and I came across this.

It’s a gelatin dessert, but there’s a goldfish floating there. And little red and white bean “rocks”. Seaweed even!

And there,  minus one gelatin bite. Almost to the rocks.

MMmmm, sweet red bean gravel and anko seaweed.

And the fish was delicious, too.