TOKYO -- Can eating "mochi" rice cake and "daifuku" mochi filled with sweet bean paste help you avoid the restroom? Recently, a curious piece of advice has been circulating on social media as a ...

Mochi-related deaths have come to haunt Japan again. The delicious rice cake, which is an integral part of the country’s New Year celebrations, turned fatal as two people choked to death. Despite ...

NIKKO – Priests pounded mochi rice cakes in a wooden mortar at Rinnoji Temple in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture on Saturday, the day of the winter solstice. As part of a traditional event, priests dressed ...

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).

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SINGAPORE – Over the past six months, there has been much ado about everything mochi – that sticky Japanese rice cake made of sweet glutinous rice. Usually filled with fruit or stuffed with ...

Transfer to a wide, shallow bowl; set aside. 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 ...