Do you know about 'Mochi',the rice cake? This is made from rice for 'mochi'. It is very popular in Japan. After harvesting, rice, the first shaped, should be processed. We cook it to cooked rice. Moreover, it is mashed with the traditional materials. You can eat it for desert or meal. Eat it by any way!! To cook it by toasting or boiling. (Please be careful boiling mochi too much. It could be melt...) This is 'Mochi' with lavor. You can cook it by toasting. If you have a microwave machine, we recommend to cook it for 2-30 seconds before you toast them. Then you can feel its inside being soft (out side should be hard) when you toast it, it is time to eat! Cover with Lavor! You can eat it dipping into soy source. We call it 'Nori-maki mochi'. This is 'Kinako mochi'. You can have rice cakes with any seasoning, soy source or sugar or soy source with sugar (recommend!) , kinako the bean powder with sugar, red bean paste (Anko), miso the bean paste. Then you have rice cake with kinako with sugar, you have to make tasting kinako. At first, mix kinako with quite a lot of sugar and salt a little bit. It is very easy to make! This is mochi with miso paste. This is toasted rice cakes with miso and sesame. You can blend sugar into miso paste. It is very nice! Miso paste is popular in the district, the middle of Japan- like Nagoya, Gifu, Nagano. This is 'zenzai', cooked rice cake with hot red bean source (very sweet). It is very easy to cook zenzai! Just you have to do is to toast rice cake and cook sweet red bean source. To cook red bean source, just add water to red bean paste and cook with pan! (You can buy red bean paste on our online shop) Please try it! Abekawa mochi. There are many way to have rice cakes! You can put 'Kuromitsu'- it is melted black sugar with water. And also we recommend to add kinako with 'Kuromitsu'. Orosi (mashed raddish) Mochi. Also we recommend to eat rice cakes with mashed raddish dipping into soysource and laver. It should be very mild for your body. http://www.japanesefoodsupplies.com/