Uraro

I haven't had uraro cookies for a long long time.  Made from arrow root tuber flour, these cookies are crunchy on the outer portion, but have a sweet powdery inner core. Vicky's colleague gave her a box of these cookies, and I found myself suddenly stuffing three or maybe four of these in my mouth.  Shades of my childhood; we used to treat these like mini puto sekos, and we'd try to whistle while chewing (which is next to impossible).  We used to call these cookies arurut (in reference to arrow root), and while today's packaging is pretty neat, these used to come rolled in plain Japanese paper.  Ah, the sweet memories of youth!