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, the soft and chewy Japanese rice cake, became one of the biggest food trends of 2025. Thanks to TikTok, this traditional treat turned into a global sensation, with millions discovering its ...
Biting into a freshly made mochi ball is all about texture. It starts with the velvety outer layer, gives way to a pillow-soft bite, and finishes with a satisfying, springy chew. This parade of ...
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 ...
The high end Japanese sweets shop sells their authentic wares to curious connoisseurs on the Peninsula From left: A shopper at Stanford Shopping Center takes a peek into K. Minamoto, a Japanese sweets ...
When the owners of Benkyodo, the mochi and manju store that stood for 115 years in the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown, announced in May 2021 that they intended to close the shop and retire, ...