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Saw this on a touch-order panel; “牛皮” took me by surprise, as it literally means “cow skin”…not something I’d expect wrapping a いちご大福 (ichigodaifuku - strawberry wrapped in mochi)
Turns out, this term originates from when the mochi coating for the dessert was imported from Tang China, so called because it resembles the smoothness of cow skin (??). In #Japan, usually the homophone kanji 求肥 is used instead because of Buddhism…with a literal meaning of “ball fat” lol
