Mochi
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Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome, a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The steamed rice is pounded into paste and
Rice cake kirimochi or kakumochi
Rice cake marumochi
Steamed rice in a stone mortar being mashed with a wooden kine (pestle) during mochitsuki
Making mochi with modern equipment
Sakuramochi
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Sakuramochi is a Japanese confection consisting of sweet, pink-colored rice cake with red bean paste filling, wrapped in a pickled cherry blossom leaf, which may or may not be eaten depending on indiv
Sakuramochi (Kanto-style)
Kansai-style sakuramochi
The interior of a sakuramochi, showing the red-bean paste inside
Sakuramochi at Yamamoto-ya, also known simply as Chōmeiji.