Yukimi Daifuku is the perfect treat for summer. It consists of round sweet ice milk wrapped in soft mochi. The super popular Japanese snack usually comes in a pack of two with separated round sections for each ball of icy mochi goodness, and a plastic pick you can use to unceremoniously plop them into your mouth (and await inevitable brain freeze).

With the sweetness of the ice milk and the soft, bouncy texture of the mochi, the cuteness of this dessert cannot be underestimated. But a challenger appears, to become the cutest thing to sit inside a Yukimi Daifuku package.

This hamster (please take note of his roundness and fluffiness), is called Ranmaru. After his owner finished off a pack of Yukimi Daifuku, Ranmaru noticed that the spaces for the mochi ice cream are actually perfectly hamster shaped and sized. He took this as an invitation to make himself at home.

When he rolled up into a ball he looked just like a Yukimi Daifuku, with a bit of extra fluff of course.

If you like Japanese pets that look like Japanese snacks you might also like the other way around, check out these dango that look like shiba inu faces and butts!

For more hamster antics, here's Ranmaru's Twitter!