Thumb through a few books and you’ll score a no-frills answer: it’s a Japanese rice cake (mochi) with a filling such as sweet ...

Remove cake pan from wok once mochi is cooked; remove and discard plastic wrap. Working in batches, use two spoons to scoop and form warm mochi into a small ball (about 1 scant tablespoon).

It’s a staple ingredient in recipes for mochi and other desserts, but it’s versatile enough to use in savory dishes too, like rice cakes. Here’s how mochi flour is made, what it tastes like ...

The chefs of Otowasan Kannonji Temple teach us how to make sankirai mochi rice cakes! This delicious treat is the head nun's specialty! Simply knead rice flour, wrap in sankirai leaves and steam.

This sweet potato mochi cake is stuffed with red bean paste and heated up to create a crispy-yet-soft exterior. Now that I’m away from home, I can whip up a batch of these and immediately be ...

The quaint space functioned well as a takeaway spot, with a few limited but comfortable seats for customers to dine-in. We first tried NestCha’s boxed cakes, starting with the Sea Salt Soya Mochi Cake ...

The first time that I told my non-Chinese friends about the taro + mochi + meat floss + salted egg combination, they were shocked that anyone would ever find this unorthodox blend of flavours ...

Seasonal recipes from the nuns of Otowasan Kannonji Temple: gohei-mochi rice cakes. It's a hometown specialty for Mitsuei, the temple's head nun. Wrap freshly cooked rice around cedar sticks and ...

Despite an annual warning from authorities, a deadly New Year's trend continued in Japan this week as two people died after choking on mochi — a doughy cake made from steamed sweet rice that is ...

Mochi rice cakes are traditionally eaten at celebrations and at New Year, when mochi made with that year's rice are also used as decorations. People start the new year with a stew called zoni, made ...

This is mochi, or rice cake, formed into a round shape to represent a mirror (kagami), one of the three sacred treasures, and displayed at New Year as an offering to the New Year gods (toshigami).