Mochi - Rice cake

December 30, 2005

In Japan, we prepare to celebrate the new year at this time of the year.
We pounded rice cake, mochi, today in order to decorate as a festive decoration and to eat on the new year's holidays of course.
The following picture is the one that my mother and my brother were pounding mochi. After that, I pounded one more mochi.

I'd love to have freshly-pounded mochi with soy sauce and grated radish. :-) They taste delicious to me !
And most Japanese children like to have mochi with soybean flour, kinako, and sugar. They taste a little too sweet for me. Also, mochi with bean jam, anko, really taste sweet.