K. MINAMOTO Stanford Shopping Center Store

180 El Camino Real Suite1160, Palo Alto
(650) 328-1830

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While waiting for my wife to finish shopping, I stopped by the store to see if there was anything interesting.

I asked one of the staff about their signature items, and she recommended a few options.

I ended up buying a peach jelly and Tsuya. The flavors were okay, but nothing particularly impressive to me.

I think these might be better suited as gifts.
The pro: The store is very inviting. Everything looked organized and well presented. The packaging was excellent. I bought 3 kinds of fresh daifuku: Kuri daifuku (chestnut), kinkan daifuku (kumquat) and kusa mochi. My favorite was the chestnut one.
The con: The quality of mochi was disappointing. I was expecting the quality to match the ones I had in Japan. These did not measure up. They are pretty and I enjoyed the variety but if I compare the taste, they are similar...
Have been coming to K Minamoto for several years and have always been happy to pay the higher prices for high quality snacks. The mochi was previously delightfully chewy and just the right texture and sweetness. In the recent months, there has been a drastic decrease in the quality of their kusamochi, which is now brittle and breaks rather than stretches, and less elastic than most mochi you could buy in a supermarket. This has been the same over 3 different occasions that I've...

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K. MINAMOTO Stanford Shopping Center Store

180 El Camino Real Suite1160, Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 328-1830