For the Lunar New Year, the Japanese celebrate with kagami mochi (or mirror rice cake) and Koreans enjoy tteokguk, or rice ...

rice balls, and various treats. Mochi flour is made from one simple ingredient—rice. Specifically, it’s made from short-grain sweet or sticky rice, such as Mochigome rice. The rice is cleaned ...

Stir mochiko — a sweet, glutinous rice flour that lends a bouncy ... roll the dough between your palms to form smooth 1-inch balls. Pan-fry mochi in brown butter to crisp the exterior of ...

Despite an annual warning from authorities, a deadly New Year's trend continued in Japan this week as two people died after choking on mochi — a doughy cake made from steamed sweet rice that is ...

The writer and curator Su Wu’s version of tang yuan reflects her family’s history and her life in Mexico City.

Or make them at home. The glutinous rice flour balls have a chewy texture similar to mochi. You can buy them in the frozen section of Asian supermarkets, but they are easy to make. They are eaten ...

“These fried sesame balls are typically ... pour it into the glutinous rice flour, it activates the chewiness and it’s much easier to mold.” Although the mochi dough starts out quite sticky ...