Sakura Mochi

Sakuramochi is a variety of wagashi, or Japanese confectionery, covered with a leaf of sakura. The style that dumplings wrapped with plant leaves like Sakuramochi is unique to Japan.

Sakuramochi can be eaten with or without the sakura leaf. In addition, form and the thickness of the rice cake seem to vary according to a district. This sakuramochi is thin that this rice cake is white and is transparent. The rice cake smelled the cherry tree and was unique taste. I am not sure that this taste s liked by a foreigner.

Omochi

Omochi means rice cake. In the house of my parents, we make rice cake every year-end. The handmade rice cake is delicious very sticky. This picture is sliced and dried rice cake. It was called 'kiri-mochi'.

It becomes the zoni when we stew this in vegetables and soup stock. Or, just bake it while it is hot and attach soy flour (Kinako) or wrapping it with a sheet of seaweed and putting soybean source on it. I think this is food necessary for Japanese life.