While traditional mochi cakes have been a celebrated part of Japanese culture for centuries, most Americans are more familiar ...

The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...

Of these, there are probably none more popular than mochi and red bean. Via Tokyo’s speciality is green tea ice cream, which they heap with normal and green mochi, adding a dollop of red bean on ...