The most recognizable rice cake in the West is Japanese mochi, but there is a wide and wonderful world of Asian rice cakes, all possessing symbolic meaning in the context of Lunar New Year. My family ...

Everybody loves mochi ice cream. But if you’re staying in more often, it might be a little harder to get your hands on the summer treat. Luckily you can make mochi at home with this DIY mochi ice ...

Nursery school children in northern Japan have tried their hand at making sticky rice cakes, or mochi, which will be used as ...

When a chef says they put their blood, sweat, and tears into their work, we hope they don’t mean literally. Mochi masters may actually mean it literally. To create the sweet, chewy Japanese delicacy, ...

Volunteers Jared Delmas and his father Erich Delmas pound rice with large mallets as part of the process of making mochi at Livingston United Methodist Church in Livingston on Saturday December 28, ...

More than a dozen workers at a traditional Japanese sweets shop in Fukuoka City, western Japan, are busy making mochi rice ...

Made by pounding cooked glutinous short-grained mochi rice, mochi is a sticky Japanese food eaten as a sweet or savory treat. Mochi is to Japanese people what latkes are for Jewish people, or black ...

The annual mochi Tsuki sale doesn’t raise much money, organizers said, but the traditions the rice pounding builds are priceless. “I think we get around $2,500 from mochi – that’s net. If you put the ...