They are usually made out of flour and filled with lotus seed paste or sweet bean paste, with cheaper versions filled with sweet potatoes.

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The Dango brothers may yet make their comeback, covered with sweet-bean paste.

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Though they have their differences, they all want to be reborn as tastier dumplings coated with a sweet-bean paste, and to remain side by side, as before, on the same skewer.

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