Lucky Sakura - West Covina

Lucky Sakura offers the perfect treats for gifting. Ever since Japan I have been craving a strawberry daifuku and just mochi in general. I made my husband take me here on the way back from visiting our friends. This little casual shop offers the cutest desserts. They have pastries, coconut puddings, tanghulu, and their popular adortable daifuku treats. I was impressed by all the different caricature and flavors that were made. On that Sunday there were mochis of hello kitty, unicorns, pigs, bunnies, cats, pokemon and more. And there were all sorts of fruit flavors including mango and durian. What I didn't like was that you can't just order one individual daifuku. The minimum is 3 in a box, which was $20/box. They also had boxes of 4 and more. I ended up getting a box of 3 strawberry pig daifukus and a coconut pudding. It was $26 total. The girl there was so nice and gifted me a complementary candied hawthron berries tanghulu. I was a little surprised that the strawberry daifukus were barely sweet. I wish it was a little sweeter. There was a little too much cream for my liking. The mochi was very soft which I liked. But overall it tasted bland. The coconut jelly was good though. The tanghulu was also good but the candied part had melted and was dripping everywhere. It also didn't taste overly sweet. I appreciate the the daifukus are creatively crafted and the complementary gift but overall I wasn't in love with how everything tasted. I also didn't like that you were forced to buy at least 3 which was too much mochi, strawberry and cream for one person. However, I did enjoy it all and the experience. I do like that this place is unique to everywhere else. Besides treats, they also sell cute plush stuffed animals. I really wanted to love this place but I probably won't be back since it is far. However, if you are in the area this place does make for great gifting to foodie friends.

Incredibly delicious! The mochi was soft and lightly powdered, and the cream inside was airy and flavorful! Also the mochi was cute af ? a box of 3 was $20 ?

The egg yolk pastry (cake) is sooooooo good! $5 per piece is not bad under inflation, since it is so delicious!

Lucky Sakura is a Japanese-style mochi dessert place. This place is pretty and also the desserts are pretty cute characters. I bought a few different ones for dinner with friends. All my friends enjoyed each of them and taught it was very cute. The sizing is one mochi per person it's a little bit bigger than normal mochi-size desserts. The price though is quite expensive. This is a place I would go to for special occasions like birthdays and things like that. They also recommend you pre-order if it's a large order. They sell items with three mochis inside. I like the panda and hello kitty ones! So cute.

Too pretty to eat! But sooo good and not overly sweet. Just perfect.