Rice Cake

Pounding mochi in an usu

Making mochi with a modern piece of equipment

Mochi (Japanese 餅) is the Japanese variant of Chinese rice cake, which, like its Chinese origin, is made of glutinous rice, pounded into paste and molded into shape; however, unlike the Chinese variety, it is molded right after it is pounded, whereas the Chinese variety is baked once again after to solidify the mixture as well as sanitize it. In Taiwan, it is written as 麻糬 with almost identical Chinese pronunciation. Traditionally in Japan, it is made in a ceremony called mochitsuki. It may also be made in an automatic mochi machine, similar to a breadmaker. In fact, mochi can be made using a breadmaker if the rice is soaked and steamed separately and the machine can be started in a kneading mode. Rice Cake Photography day December, 2002 Photography person MASA Photography place At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Rice Cake Photography day December, 2002 Photography person MASA Photography place At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mochituki Photography day 　December, 2002 Photography person　 MASA Photography place　 At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention　 http://commons. ... Mochituki Photography day 　December, 2002 Photography person　 MASA Photography place　 At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention　 http://commons. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1114 KB)Electronic machine used to produce Japanese mochi, in action. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1114 KB)Electronic machine used to produce Japanese mochi, in action. ... Rice cake, also known as Nian Gao (Cake of New Year) is a food product prepared from glutinous rice and used as an ingredient in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cuisine. ... Glutinous rice, also called sticky rice, sweet rice, sushi rice, waxy rice, botan rice, mochi rice, Japanese rice, and pearl rice, is the main type of rice grown and consumed by the Lao of Laos and Northeast Thailand, areas which are considered to be the primary center of origin and... Breadmaker A breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread, it handles the process from ingredients to a finished loaf automatically. ...

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While eaten year-round, mochi is a traditional food for the Japanese New Year and commonly sold and eaten at that time. In ancient times, the Japanese New Year (正月 shōgatsu) followed the same lunisolar calendar as the Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese New Year (at the beginning of spring). ...

Mochi is very sticky and somewhat tricky to eat. After each new year, it is reported in the Japanese media how many people die from choking on mochi. The victims are usually elderly. Because it is so sticky it is difficult to dislodge via the Heimlich maneuver. In the Japanese comedy film Tampopo, a house vacuum is used to suck it out. (Some lifesaving experts say that a vacuum cleaner is actually efficient for stuck mochi.^{[citation needed]}) The Heimlich maneuver The Heimlich maneuver, also known as abdominal thrusts, is a first aid procedure for clearing an obstructed airway. ... Tampopo (タンポポ or 蒲公英 which translate to dandelion) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film by director Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe. ... Regular vacuum cleaner for home use. ...

Mochitsuki

Mochitsuki is the traditional mochi-pounding ceremony in Japan.

1. Polished glutinous rice is soaked overnight and cooked.
2. It is pounded with wooden mallets (kine) in a traditional mortar (usu). Two people will alternate the work, one pounding and the other turning and wetting the mochi. The mochi must be kept wet to keep it from sticking to the mallet.
3. The sticky mass is then formed into various shapes (usually a sphere or cube).

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Popular uses for mochi

Confectionery

Many types of traditional wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) are made with mochi. For example, daifuku is a soft round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, for example a sweetened red bean paste. Ichigo daifuku is a version containing a whole strawberry inside. A selection of wagashi to be served during a Japanese tea ceremony. ... Daifuku (大福) is a soft rice cake stuffed with sweet filling, for example an - a sweetened bean jam. ... Red bean paste is a food item prepared by boiling azuki beans with sugar. ... Species 20+ species; see text This article is about the strawberry plant. ...

Kusa mochi is a green variety of mochi flavored with yomogi (mugwort). When daifuku is made with kusa mochi, it is called yomogi daifuku. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into mochi. ... Binomial name Artemisia vulgaris L. Mugwort or Common Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris) is a species from the daisy family Asteraceae. ...

Ice cream

Main article: Mochi ice cream

Small balls of ice cream are wrapped inside a mochi covering to make mochi ice cream. In Japan this is manufactured by Lotte under the name Yukimi Daifuku, "snow-viewing daifuku". In the United States a grocery store called Trader Joe's sells mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, green tea and strawberry. It is also popular in California and Hawaii. Mochi ice cream is a confection made from mochi (pulverized sticky rice) with an ice cream filling. ... Mochi ice cream is a confection made from mochi (pulverized sticky rice) with an ice cream filling. ... Lotte Group is a large international conglomerate founded in June 1948 (Shōwa 23) in Tokyo, Japan by Shin Kyuk-Ho (신격호, 辛格浩), a South Korean national living in South Korea(odd months) and Japan(even months) who is alternatively known by his Japanese name Shigemitsu Takeo (重光 武雄). After the normalization of diplomatic... Yukimi Daifuku (Japanese: 雪見だいふく snow-viewing daifuku) is a brand of ice cream manufactured by the Japanese/Korean company Lotte. ... Frozen quiche from Trader Joes Trader Joes is an American privately-held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. ... This article is becoming very long. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Soup

• Oshiruko or ozenzai is a sweet azuki bean soup with pieces of mochi. In winter, Japanese people often eat it to warm themselves.
• Chikara udon (meaning "power udon") is a dish consisting of udon noodles in soup topped with toasted mochi.

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New Year specialties

• Kagami mochi is a New Year decoration, which is traditionally broken and eaten in a ritual called Kagami biraki (mirror opening).
• Zoni soup is a soup containing rice cakes. Zoni is also eaten on New Year's Day. In addition to mochi, zoni contains vegetables like honeywort, carrot, and red and white colored boiled kamaboko.

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Other

• Warabimochi is not true mochi, but a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). It is popular in the summertime, and often sold from trucks, not unlike ice cream trucks in Western countries.

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Other facts

The rabbit in the moon by his mortar

• In Japanese folk tradition, rabbits living on the Moon produce mochi in the traditional method with mallets and mortars. (This legend is based on the traditional pareidolia that identifies the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding mochi.[1])

• Mocchi is also the name of a monster type and character in the game and TV series Monster Rancher. It is so named for its physical resemblance to a type of mochi pastry.

• Mochi competed on popular British television show, Brainiac:_Science_Abuse, shown on Sky One (and on other channels in a few other European countries). The competition was to find out which was the world's chewiest food. Mochi didn't win; the English Devonshire toffee won.