mochi

Rice Cake & Vegetable Soup

“rice cake”

Jelly-like confection made from bracken starch (not glutinous rice, like regular mochi).

Made by grilling kiri mochi (pre-cut mochi), and pouring soy sauce while it’s hot and then wrapping in nori seaweed.

Made with freshly pounded mochi tossed in red-bean paste.

Prepared by tossing freshly pounded mochi in kinako (roasted soybean flour), then garnishing it with white sugar.

Steamed joshinko (rice flour) filled with sweet bean paste and wrapped in oak leaves