Mitsuo Nakatani is a mochi master, and to watch him do his work is a genuine thrill. Turning sticky rice into Japan's traditional soft and chewy treat requires pounding, flipping and smashing the ...

More than a dozen workers at a traditional Japanese sweets shop in Fukuoka City, western Japan, are busy making mochi rice ...

Watch this video of a mochi machine working its transformation magic on a portion of rice, and three things are pretty likely to happen: 1) You will feel very relaxed; 2) Your sweet tooth will start ...

At three pounds per second, it only takes mochi maker Mitsuo Nakatani, two minutes to serve up one of the tastiest mochi you'll ever taste in Japan. Mochi is a Japanese chewy sweet treat made from ...

mochi, the New Year’s delicacy enjoyed throughout the islands. After cooking, the rice is put into a motorized mochi maker (see page 2). Then the rice cakes are laid out to cure on tables (r.). The ...

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 ...