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Glutinous rice cake of Japan
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mochi
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is Japanese rice cake made of mochigome , a short-grain japonica glutinous rice . The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki . While also eaten year-round, mochi is ...
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n. A Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.
Usage examples of mochi.
Its saddlebags bulged with New Year gifts-fine lacquerware and ceramics and silver, beautifully wrapped parcels of mochi and tangerines-for his family and friends.
Taking along parcels of mochi and tangerines to distribute among his neighbors, he escaped into the quiet streets.
The large wooden mortar used to pound mochi at New Year and such occasions has been put aside there nearby to a camellia tree.
Many of these houses were roadside chayas, or tea-houses, and nearly all sold sweet-meats, dried fish, pickles, mochi, or uncooked cakes of rice dough, dried persimmons, rain hats, or straw shoes for man or beast.