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a chewy little rebel that kills more people each New Year than most disasters.
means A Japanese rice cake made by pounding glutinous (sticky) rice into a soft, stretchy, intensely chewy mass, eaten plain, grilled, or wrapped around sweet fillings.
from From Japanese 餅 (mochi), tied to the verb motsu, 'to hold' or 'to stick' — fitting for something that clings to the spoon, the teeth, and occasionally the windpipe. The word arrived in English in the 19th century along with the food itself, and the rice-pounding ritual called mochitsuki, in which steamed rice is hammered with a wooden mallet into its signature glue-like elasticity.
- deadly treat
- chokes several Japanese to death every New Year
- made by violence
- steamed rice pounded with heavy wooden mallets
- rabbit myth
- Japanese see a rabbit pounding mochi on the moon
- stretch factor
- glutinous rice gives it that endless gooey pull
- ice cream shell
- wraps frozen scoops in countless global freezers
daifuku — japanese mochi filled with ice cream or red bean paste, popular sweet since edo period
mochi ice cream — japanese-american dessert created in 1993 by frances hashimoto in los angeles
aisuman — taiwanese shaved ice dessert topped with mochi pieces, consumed across taiwan and southeast asia