Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lunar New Year is celebrated with different foods depending on the culture, but across the Asian diaspora, there is one food in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everybody loves mochi ice cream. But if you’re staying in more often, it might be a little harder to get your hands on the summer ...

The mochi dish at State Bird Provisions in San Francisco is close to my heart, as it was one of the first dishes I created for the restaurant. It was born out of a kombu cooking challenge that chef/co ...

Growing up in Columbus, but born in Hatsukaichi, Japan, mochi wasn’t just a treat-it was a slice of my heritage that I carried with me like the curls in my hair and the ink on my skin. My fondness for ...

Mochi is to Japanese people what latkes are for Jewish people, or black eyed peas for Southerners — food associated with celebrating winter traditions. Made by pounding cooked glutinous short-grained ...

With the end of one year, and the beginning of another, comes the annual Japanese-American mochitsuki - or mochi-making - tradition. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

The most recognizable rice cake in the West is Japanese mochi, but there is a wide and wonderful world of Asian rice cakes, all possessing symbolic meaning in the context of Lunar New Year. My family ...