Two people died in Japan after choking on mochi to celebrate the new year. Despite officials warning the population about the ...

Choking on mochi is so common that authorities offer tips every year on how to help someone who has the food lodged in their throat.

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 ...

Ozoni, a Japanese soup with mochi, is traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day. This version from chef Takashi Yagihashi calls ...

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).

Mochi, a doughy cake made from steamed sweet rice, is more than just a nostalgic taste of Japan; the very act of making mochi ...

Bibingka is a traditional Filipino cake made with rice flour, coconut milk, eggs, and sugar. Similar to mochi, it’s slightly ...

These two intrepid researchers took a long, hard look at a very short recipe, “Black Cake,” written in the ... s kitchen (observed by her cats, Mochi and Nori). There is no sense of how ...