In the luminous children's food literacy comedy Waffles + Mochi, we follow two aspiring chefs as they venture from their homeland, a frozen food tundra where ice is on the menu each meal, to a sunny city where they soon get entry level jobs at a community-minded grocery store.
Our chattier hero is Waffles, a fuzzy white-and-periwinkle woolen puppet with black button eyes, crispy waffle ears and just two adorable molars lining her mouth. (Her mother was a yeti and her father was a frozen waffle.
Don't think about it too hard or you might accidentally liquefy your brain.) Waffles' companion is a bite-sized pink velvet mochi ice cream confection who meeps and murmurs and generally plays straight-man to his exuberant buddy.
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