Mochi mochi means glutinous (not glutenous!) and sticky. Mochi mochi stuff has a chewy bite, for example mochi (natch), sticky rice like the sekihan in the picture, some kinds of mushipan and breads like these muffins made with glutinous rice flour and Pao de Queijo.
Audioscript: “Mochi mochi shiteru mushipan ga daisuki” (I love steamed cakes that are mochi mochi).
NB: If you click the little arrow below, the audio will play.
More Japanese food onomatopoeia
What’s your favourite mochi mochi food?
Leave a comment, make my day!
Oh, I LOVE mochi, to the point where I quite definitely suffer from mochi madness. There is just something so gloriously glutinous that sends my mochi-gluttony into overdrive. Mmmmm. So, it’s not hard to guess my favourite mochi-food.
Other gloriously mochi-mochi things must include saucy slowcooked ribs, tenderly cooked ox tendon, sichuan style and about a thousand and one SE Asian desserts. Oh, and Gulub Jamun. I LOVE Gulub Jamun! I think I’d better go and have a lie down.
This really made me smile. Food onomatopoeia must simply be the best kind of onomatopoeia :D Mochi mochi daisuki!! x
Watashi mo ^_^
There is no way I could choose my favourite “mochi” food… I love anything with glutinous rice flour. :D
Hi Sasa, I don’t have much of a sweet tooth but gotta love the mushipan! I also like my mochi drowned in kinako.
Kinako, me too, and kuromitsu.
I’ve never tried any of these foods!
Sasa, did you know that “glutinous” and “gluten” actually come from the same Latin root? They both come from “gluten/glutinosus” (“glue”) but they arrived into the English lexicon at different times.
Interesting! I thought they must have the same root because the concept is similar but I didn’t know how it came about.
ahh, you’re making me hungry for sekihan…!
But my favourite mochi-mochi food: probably mochi itself. Yakimochi with nori and shoyu… best ever. Close second? Definitely pao de queijo :)
I’m all for glutenous food :0) I just can’t help it if the food tastes good. I just poached chicken in a tea broth with udon noodles and sea weed and if P had not come home in time I would have been a gluten and eaten his share too.
This is one area of food where I feel completely lost and clueless. Well, not that I have an idea about other stuff, but, more than Japanese cuisine. I need to learn, but am always so intimidated. Like a bazillion years of culture and tradition for my to eff up. Not to mention, with me being a Westerner, it’s almost impossible for my brain to remember the words. The sounds are just too…foreign I guess. I could use some pointers for sure. You still getting care packages? Or do you have luck finding this stuff in Austria? I was craving some Thai curry recently and just to find lemongrass, and DRY kaffir lime, we had to go on a wild goose chase through Torino. Not quite the same. Besides that, I had to bring a buncha stuff from the states…
Limited stuff, and I get stuff when I go to London etc and when I’m lucky, care packages but the fresh stuff is unobtainable (fresh wagashi and fish etc).
i like me some mochi with ice cream inside! heheh.. actually i like all kinds of mochi mochi food, like sticky rice! :)
Ice cream daifuku! Also a favourite of mine.
I am thinking of lamb shanks, the lower part, sticky and gelatinous, after several hours of braising. Am I close? I need a serious tutorial on Japanese food. I heard that you are coming to SF soon – I am not that far away:)
Love the repetitiveness:)
Hm, not sure if that is mochi mochi, it has more bite usually. Have emailed you re SF!
That image makes me hungry! And I heart mochi. I used to work in our tiny Japantown and the thing I miss most is the food!
I like the original mochi mochi: mochi!!! THAT is difficult to find in New Zealand!
ciao
A.
Love it! Yum, this would be so tasty :-)
Oh, you’ve got a sexy voice! Hahaha! I love your Japanese accent. So sensual …
I remember back in mid 2009, when I was stuck in Narita Airport for 24 hours while on my way back from the States to Malaysia, I chanced upon ice-cream mochi! Too bad, I let go of the opportunity to try new food … Now a regret for life, till I visit once again …
Thank you ^_^;
Wonder if you mean ice-cream daifuku, if so you can normally get it in the freezer section of Asian stores.
Sassa, I could really go a bowl of this, I haven’t had this dish for such a long, long time. Gotta find me some :)
where do you buy mochi in new zealand?
My stepmother actually makes it fresh in her machine but you can get it at Japanmart in Khyber Pass in Auckland.
Comments on this entry are closed.
Leave a comment, make my day!