Japanese Dumplings - Sailor Moon?

Question

With regards to the Japanese dumplings that Serena/Usagi eats, are they actually dumplings (sweet or savoury?) or Sanshoku dango.

Thankyou.

Answer 1

She eats daifuku, or big lucky buns

Answer 2

Those are known as daifuku, and it is a Japanese confection consisting of a small round mochi (glutinous rice cake) stuffed with sweet filling, most commonly anko, sweetened red bean paste made from azuki beans. Daifuku comes in many varieties. The most common is white, pale green or pale pink colored mochi filled with anko. These come in two common sizes, one about as large in diameter as a half-dollar coin, the other large enough to fill the palm of a hand. Some versions contain whole pieces of fruit, mixtures of fruit and anko or crushed melon paste. Nearly all daifuku are covered in a fine layer of corn or taro starch to keep them from sticking to each other, or to the fingers. Some are covered with confectioner's sugar or cocoa.

Answer 3

I don't know what Usagi eats, but I know what Sanshoku Dango is. I used to eat a lot when I lived in Japan.

Sanshoku Dango is a type of Japanese sweets that has three different color dumplings through a bamboo skewer, which looks like this:

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The dumplings are made out of Shiratama flour, Jyoushin flour, hot water and sugar. And to make Sanshoku (san= three, shoku= colors) Dango, the dough is separated into three parts and one part is colored in pink, the second part is colored in green, and the last part is...well the flour color is already white so it doesn't need to be colored in white. But anyway three different color dough is kneeded into a ball and put each different color dumpling through a bamboo skewer. And then the dumplings go to a stemer for 5 minutes or so and they are ready to eat!!!

*by the way, there is no sweet bean inside the dumplings.