0 a type of rice used in Japanese cooking, which is sweet with short, rounded seeds that stick together when cooked:
She went to Whole Foods to buy herself some mochi.
He received an unexpected holiday meal of mochi, the specially prepared rice eaten by all Japanese at that season.
Dozens of people stood in line to taste sweet mochi, or rice cakes freshly made by pounding the cooked rice.
Sensory assessments of the hardness, stickiness and elasticity of mochi and their relationship with solute concentration and heating time were also performed.
Differing regional beliefs set those who use foxes into two separate types: the "kitsune-tsukai", and the "kitsune-mochi".
In some regions, three layered kagami mochi are also used.
The three layered kagami mochi are placed on the butsudan or on the kamidana.
Traditionally the kagami mochi was placed in various locations throughout the house.
