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Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Mar 12, 2023
Recipe: Botamochi sweets to welcome spring
Spring is just about to ... well ... spring, and these sweet adzuki treats are traditional equinox bites.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Dec 4, 2021
Recipe: Preserved lemon butter mochi
Cook for where you wish you could be. That's the sentiment behind this week's tropics-inspired dessert for the holiday season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Oct 3, 2020
Celebrating Japan’s sweets in ice cream form
Haagen-Dazs' Hanamochi ice cream pops up in freezers every so often, and the current autumn offerings are its best nod to traditional flavors so far.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 13, 2020
The do’s and doughs of bread makers: Move beyond the basic loaf with mochi and more
Did you know you could make more than bread in your “home bakery”? No? The Japan Times tells you how.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Dec 30, 2019
A Japanese tradition to greet the new year
One new year tradition that has managed to stick around is making mochi, just make sure to watch your hands while you do it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Dec 14, 2019
Whether it's sweet or savory, zōni soup is a new year mainstay
For centuries, mochi rice cakes have been a part of festive occasions in Japan, especially during the new year holidays. A hearty zu014dni soup is one classic way to incorporate mochi into your new year meal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2018
Traditional handmade mochi brings New Year's cheer
"Try our mochi," calls out Nao Sakai at a Tokyo market as she sells rice and rice cakes made at her family's shop in Yamagata Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Nov 4, 2018
The kitchen is where the party is
The kitchen may be home to the most everyday objects in the house, but that doesn't mean they all have to be boring in design.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Apr 14, 2018
Celebrating the spring with homemade Japanese sweets
Spring is a great time for fans of wagashi, traditional Japanese sweets. While many wagashi reflect the seasons all year long visually — especially the colorful, beautifully formed nerikiri created by skilled artisans — this is the time of year when you can taste, as well as see, the season as it progresses.
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2018
Two die in Tokyo after choking on New Year rice cakes
Fifteen people, including two who died, had to be rushed by ambulance to hospitals in Tokyo on Monday after choking on mochi, a sticky rice cake that is a traditional New Year's dish.
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2016
Tokyo woman fatally chokes on a rice cake
An elderly Tokyo woman dies on New Year's Day after choking on a rice cake, a traditional holiday food that has threatened the lives of 15 so far this year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 2, 2015
Mochi is making a sweet turn outside Japan
Vivien Wong and her brother Howard are pinning their future on a Japanese favorite that is beginning to gain popularity elsewhere.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KONBINI WATCH
Jun 3, 2014
A delicious treat, if you can find it
In the seven months since its release, over 3.45 million F Style Mochi Ponyo treats have been sold in Three-F convenience stores, and they have become a trending topic of discussion on Twitter. Mochi Ponyo are custard-filled sweets wrapped in soft pastry made of rice flour. Expect to have a hard time finding one: They're so popular that fans snap them up as soon as they're restocked. In addition to the standard custard flavor (¥108), you can try matcha (powdered green tea ¥126) or limited-edition strawberry (¥120).
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Apr 5, 2013
Springtime sweets come into bloom
The petals may have dropped from the cherry trees, at least in the Tokyo area, but there are plenty of leaves to be seen — and not just on the trees. Look around any shop selling traditional wagashi sweets at this time of year and you'll find cherry leaves in evidence, wrapped around sakura-mochi.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 31, 2010
Trends in Japan 2010: food and drink
2010 was a year for spicy and cooling foods, ramen and mochi for breakfast, Ryoma-branded everything and dining on the cheap.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 6, 2010
Morning mochi makes waves
Say ohaiyo gozaimasu to a new yet traditional meal: the Good Morning Breakfast Mochi.
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In a first, Japan doctors sue Google over negative reviews on firm's map app
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