The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...

I'm far from a vanilla ice cream hater, but when it came to Trader Joe's vanilla mochi flavor, I just really found myself wanting more. Whereas the chewy rice coating on the outside of mochi is ...

The family still pounded mochi in 2016. “She had everything prepared for us just before she passed, so it wasn’t as difficult to get everything together for mochitsuki,” Okamoto said. But ...

Japan’s emergency services are warning New Year revellers not to bite off more than they can chew when they savour traditional mochi rice cakes over the holidays. An essential element of the ...