New Year's Day is often celebrated with traditional, symbolic foods across the world. Find out what makes this Japanese soup ...

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

For many Japanese families, mochi pounding is a New Year's tradition believed to bring good fortune and long life. In Kailua, ...

Every year, Japan’s national police and emergency response services issue public warnings to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes, the sticky, sweet traditional delicacy served to celebrate the new ...

The National Police Agency and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency are urging elderly people to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes during the New Year holidays. The appeal is made every year ...

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 ...

Mochi Rice: 2 cups mocha-sweet rice (steamed as directions) ¼ cup minced char siu ¼ cup minced lup chong 1/8 cup diced onion 1 tsp. garlic 1 tsp. ginger 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil 1/8 cup shrimp-pork ...

Kirimochi 切り餅 is a type of dried mochi (rice cake made of mochigome glutinous rice) cut into rectangles. They're one of the most common forms of dried mochi cakes and are typically bought at New ...

A grim New Year's trend continued in Japan as four women choked to death on traditional rice cakes and 12 other people were hospitalized, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported. The women who died were ...