Mochi

[Anonymous No.8235253]

Why isn't mochi more popular in the U.S.? I can't find it in ANY candy shops. I can only find it at Cost Plus World Market and the selection is very limited (but pic related is my favorite).

I've literally been looking in every Asian section of every grocery store, and every candy shop in a desperate search for more mochi, for a month now. I don't want to have to pay ridiculous shipping fees for mochi but I may have to. If I do, it better be good mochi.

So what's your favorite mochi?

I'll also accept mochi recipes although I share a kitchen and it gets crowded so I really try to limit the cooking I do there.

[Anonymous No.8235261]

I use this recipe: japanesecooking101.com/sweet-mochi-recipe/

It's pretty easy, and as for the mochi flour (and taro powder) nuts.com has decent shipping prices.

[Anonymous No.8235271]

There are a lot of Asian grocers around me (Seattle area) so it's not difficult to get mochi here.

I like sesame/poppy seed and red bean mochi.

[Anonymous No.8235272]

I'm in northern Nevada and it's practically nonexistent even for sushi restaurants and other authentic Asian places but I'd kill for that stuff. Quite a shame.

[Anonymous No.8235298]

M89, homemade mochi can be simple as fuck. You can add any type of filling you like in it.

Just get yourself glutinous rice flour, some starch to mitigate stickiness and follow an easy recipe. Its much better than that Taiwanese stuff.

Have some adzuki beans and matcha around for extra authenticity.

[Anonymous No.8235301]

Because we have real jelly donuts that are made from sugar, not beans

[Anonymous No.8235303]

>>8235271
Which stores? Any in or near Greenlake? Please don't say downtown.

[Anonymous No.8235307]

>>8235301
I always hated those.

It's a little odd, I hate probably just about everything about Japanese/Chinese culture, except some of their food is so good.

I especially like how this particular taro mochi isn't too sweet. That donut would make me vomit from the amount of sugar. Also jelly is gross to me, I prefer a lightly sweetened paste.

[Anonymous No.8235308]

>>8235303
Uwajimaya, for one.

[Anonymous No.8235318]

Can't wait until 2020. Gonna spend three straight weeks in Japan for the Olympics and sightseeing. Gonna get so fat off of street food and sweets. Especially mochi. Fuck, why you post this OP.

[Anonymous No.8235329]

>>8235253
>Why isn't mochi more popular in the U.S.?
Probably because it's bland tasting, gook shit?

[Anonymous No.8235411]

>>8235253
Because it tastes like shit and are inferior to any western sweet you fucking weeb shit

[Anonymous No.8235419]

>>8235253
you can get this mochi ice cream at trader joes

[Anonymous No.8235423]

>>8235253

Amazon has several different kinds of mochi available with no shipping if you've a prime account.

[Anonymous No.8235508]

>>8235308
International District. Yuck.

I'll just ask around.

[Anonymous No.8235624]

>>8235301
Why. Did you post a rice ball?

[Anonymous No.8235661]

>>8235253
Green tea Mochi is the best. I always buy the fresh stuff when I see it in Asian supermarkets.

[Anonymous No.8235666]

Jelly donuts are my favorite

[Anonymous No.8235884]

I just head down to the local Korean mart

[Anonymous No.8235919]

>>8235307
if calories make you vomit you need to do more exercise. burn 4k calories in a day and sugar isn't too sweet

[Anonymous No.8235925]

>>8235253

kys weeb

[Anonymous No.8235950]

>>8235411
>>8235925
日本のお菓子じゃなくて台湾のお菓子じゃないか

[Anonymous No.8235975]

>>8235411
>>8235925

Weeaboos probably disgust me more than they do you but mochi is delicious.

[Anonymous No.8235991]

>>8235253
They have them at trader joes

>>8235419
yeah this is the stuff. Shit is cash.

[Anonymous No.8235997]

>>8235253
>>8235950
You are not japanese.
You will never be japanese.
Quit idolizing such a fucked up country before you fully alienate what little social circle you still have.

[Anonymous No.8236023]

>>8235253
Friendly reminder: The Japanese hate you and your type.
You will never be accepted by them.

[Anonymous No.8236037]

>>8235997
>>8236023
Dirty gaijin, amirite? But to be on topic, I've seen these being made and sold at my local HEB along with a sushi chef or whatever they're called.

[Anonymous No.8236106]

>>8235253
Hmart, if there's on near you.

I'm not a fan, generally. That said, if it's freshly pounded (and still slightly warm from the friction) it's not bad.

[Anonymous No.8236353]

>>8235997
>>8236023
I already stated I hate essentially everything about Japanese culture... I need mochi in my life though.

Calm down. You people are almost as stupid as weeaboos.


>>8236106
I don't think there is but thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.8236412]

>>8235253
This is a taiwanese knockoff and doesn't taste like real mochi.
I'm not saying it's shit, it's just not real mochi.
>>8235301
Kill yourself, Hans you cucked limpdick. Krapfen are shit-tier so give your daughter/wife/sister to Muhammad already, so your shit-tier nation gets breeded out by 2050 you disgusting scatfag.

[Anonymous No.8236421]

What kind of backwoods hick towns are you guys living in? I live in AL and I can still find an Asian grocer that sells mochi.

[Anonymous No.8236432]

>>8236421
>Asian grocer
Some of us don't want to deal with Paki's or Indians.

[Anonymous No.8236433]

Isn't just a snowball with something over it?

[Anonymous No.8236439]

>>8236432

That's a Desi grocer. Asian grocer = Chinese/Korean/Jap/Viet

[Anonymous No.8236447]

>>8236432
Worst you'll see in those are Filipinos. Last time I went to an Asian grocery store I only saw light-skinned east Asians and whites.

[Anonymous No.8236456]

>>8236412
Oh. So there's a chance I won't even like "real mochi"?

What's the difference? I really like this knock off.

[Anonymous No.8236460]

>>8236432
were not talking about england here. everywhere else an asian grocer means chinese

[Anonymous No.8236461]

>>8236421
I live in California. I just found a small shop one city away from me that sells mochi. Might try that.

[Anonymous No.8236462]

>look on yelp
>type "mochi"

How hard can it fucking be?

[Anonymous No.8236464]

>>8236439
>pakis aren't Asian
Thanks for the info.

[OP_JPN (>_^)/ No.8236473]

>>8236439
I love it when whitey, round-eyes come into our store.
I managed to offload a pile of nearly out of date, green tea KitKats to some high school weeaboo for 10 X what we stocked them for.
Also if you're buying loose leaf tea, we're ripping you off by about 800%
Gaijin paid for my BMW ;-)

[Anonymous No.8236476]

>>8235303
>In green lake
Will you be my bf

>>8235308
I went there once and bought so much nice Asian candy and sweets

[Anonymous No.8236479]

>>8236464
>>pakis aren't Asian

Not in casual conversation, no.

Asian market = China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, etc.

Desi market = India, Pakistan

[Anonymous No.8236484]

>>8236473
It's like they don't even to bother to check what's on sale.

[Anonymous No.8236485]

>>8236479
>Desi
Which country is this dialect from?

[Anonymous No.8236494]

>>8236485

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the word.

[Anonymous No.8236586]

I ate some big ass Mochi balls in Hong Kong and it was disgusting as fuck, really fucking disgusting. Had to wash it down with a disgusting Bubble tea as well. Their food is great but really can't into desserts/sweet.

[Anonymous No.8236602]

>>8235253
I literally can find it at any trader joe's.

[Anonymous No.8236732]

>>8235253
I get it from little Tokyo. Straight from the source.
L.a fag here.

[Anonymous No.8236735]

>>8236602
Only the ice cream kind. The ice cream kind is disgusting except the mango flavored one. But even that doesn't compare to the kind in the OP.

[Anonymous No.8236744]

>>8235303
I went to the Asian food market in North Seattle and it seems pretty gucci

It smells like shit and there are only Asian people there and a couple of neck beard.

The mochi was really expensive ($5) and it's the kind you find at trader Joe's but the more weeby brand only had vanilla. The rest was $5 combined

[Anonymous No.8236786]

>>8236744
Ice cream mochi is disgusting though. I want the room temperature mochi.

[Anonymous No.8236834]

>>8235253
Dunno, if you move to Hawaii it's in pretty much every market. But markets tend to sell to their locals, you won't find white markets buying the stuff up unless they express a demand, and many people are weird about trying new things.

[Anonymous No.8237402]

>>8235298
Doesn't mochi have a reputation for being hard to make or is it because the traditional way is too time consuming?

I think they have mochi machines now though.

[Anonymous No.8237408]

>>8235307
I think a study was done comparing Japanese sweets and Western sweets and Japanese sweets have lower sugar content than Western sweets.

Japan doesn't really seem as addicted to sugar as some other countries like take Mexico for example, I would hesitate to drink any Mexican sodas. Sure their Mexican sodas are made with real sugar but that is still way too much sugar.

[Anonymous No.8237412]

>>8236786
Ice Cream Mochi is too hard.

Mochi should be fresh but ice cream mochi demands itself to be frozen in order to be sold.

One of the big downsides of ice cream mochi.

[Anonymous No.8237528]

>>8237412
you realize youre supposed to let it thaw a bit right

[Anonymous No.8238885]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSrULDVRPc

Why are food documentaries so comforting to watch?

[Anonymous No.8239273]

>>8235271
>mochi
That's not mochi you fucking idiot. That's a chinese snack. Just because it uses rice paste doesn't make it mochi.

[Anonymous No.8239276]

>>8235253
i know this brand i think, a lot of these boxed mochi are pure garbage

[Anonymous No.8239303]

>>8235253
H mart

[Anonymous No.8239362]

>>8239273
its mochi coated in sesame seeds

[Anonymous No.8239382]

>>8235301
This.
Real sweets are made with real sugar.

[Anonymous No.8239384]

>>8235253
I hate those things. Its not the flavour, its the texture. I find it hideous

[Anonymous No.8239612]

cause its like eating a slug

[Anonymous No.8239743]

>>8236476
I'll buy you a drink but I'm not looking for anything like that.

[Anonymous No.8240023]

>>8239362
And wontons are just steamed gyoza.

[Anonymous No.8240181]

amerifat mentality:

>ewwwwww it has BEANS in itttttttt

>>8235298
>can be simple as fuck

Fuck you. It's impossible to roll the shit into shape.

>>8235661

My nigger.

[Anonymous No.8240207]

>control + f
>green tea
>one result

You guys are really letting me down. Should be pretty easy to find in any asian grocery store, you could even ask them to order some if you wanted a whole bunch. I think the shelf life is pretty long.

[Anonymous No.8240320]

>>8239362
It's not mochi you fucking donkey.
It's Jian dui.
Even if you considered that version japanese, they call that one dango.

[Anonymous No.8240490]

mochi is boring and horrible. rice is boring as a flavor, its added to budweiser. just eat rice or glutinous rice or rice crackers. fuck mochi

[Anonymous No.8240497]

>>8240320
hipster BTFO

[Anonymous No.8240503]

>>8235661
American here and I love chinese snacks with red bean paste and other stuff.
There are Ranch 99's everywhere

[Anonymous No.8240859]

I've made this recipe before (just the mitarashi dango), and it was easy as pie. If you can find glutinous rice flour, you ought to give it a go.

https://youtu.be/5PZuMdrYI7E

[Anonymous No.8241154]

>>8240859
This is closer to mochi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nkq4_FQ3A
Just use a smaller bean ball and steam instead of frying. Or boil, maybe, idk.

[Anonymous No.8241275]

When i went to Japan, my gf took me to her friends house in the mountains where her family made homemade mochi. They kept passing out balls of it to eat - not the kind with the bean paste inside, but just basically the pure rice glue. By the 3rd one i wanted to vomit. It was literally like eating glue. I hate mochi now.