A community in western Japan is celebrating the Lunar New Year by making decorations with twigs adorned with white ornaments made from mochi rice cake.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lunar New Year is celebrated with different foods depending on the culture, but across the Asian diaspora, there is one food in ...

As sweet rice steamed at the Grange Hall on Hagen Road Saturday under the watchful eye of Hideko Sugiyama, volunteers stood ready outside to pound it with mallets into rice patties — or “mochi” — to ...

CEAPS hosted a mochitsuki event, bringing students and community members together to make mochi and experience Japanese culture.

Kashiwa mochi is traditionally eaten during Children's Day in Japan on May 5 every year. The snack has sweet red bean paste wrapped in an oak leaf, which symbolizes prosperity and strength for ...