Stock Photo Description: Family and friends working to shape pasty hot rice into round pieces or mochi which literally means “round rice.” these are set aside to cool and then be eaten. The traditional Japanese practice of making mochi is a part of the local Hawaiian New Year’s celebration, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. Mochi is a pounded rice cake made from sweet glutinous rice called mochigome. The cooked rice is dumped into the usu, or mortar made of stone. The hot cooked rice is then pounded with wooden mallets called a kine. The pounding is done with enthusiasm and force until the mass of rice is smooth, shiny and pasty.
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Stock Photo of Round Pieces or Mochi Which Literally Means “round Rice.”
