Meaning

A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating..

Example Sentences

Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her.

Konjac has been used to make noodles (shiritaki noodles) and heat-stable gels such as mitsumame, a fruit dessert.

The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup.

Cream mitsumame ($4.99) contains ice cream and a Japanese-style canned fruit cocktail with a few beans in sugar syrup.

Desserts include mitsumame ($6.50) — resilient cubes of unflavoured gelatin with vanilla ice cream and fruit cocktail — as well as a crème brûlée trio ($9).

In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame.

Desserts, appropriately small and light, include mochi ice cream ($4) – go for the red bean and green tea flavors – and mitsumame ($6), a cheerful fruit cocktail studded with chewy, translucent gelees made from agar, a seaweed extract.

I thought of the tempting, beautiful bowls of mitsumame: a rainbow of fruit and sweet red beans and translucent cubes of jelly quavering in the sun.

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Use mitsumame when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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