A short-grained, sweet, glutinous rice with a high starch content, used in Japanese cooking.
Example sentencesExamples
Items offered at the altar to deities included traditional Hakka rice cakes, ginger, brown sugar, tea leaves, green onions, mochi and sweet potatoes, representing foods that come from the mountains.
Morning breakfast consisted mainly of congee (a soft rice porridge) with mochi (pounded sticky rice cake).
It's a good day today - rice, ham and vegetable mix, a hunk of fried chicken complete with skin, and mochi (a chewy substance made by pounding rice for hours) on a stick.
Third plate: sweet beans with small mochi balls and sweetened chestnut; and green tea cake filled with whipped cream, along with a long pretzel.
Origin
Japanese.
Definition of mochi in US English:
mochi
nounˈmōCHē
A short-grained, sweet, glutinous rice with a high starch content, used in Japanese cooking.
Example sentencesExamples
Third plate: sweet beans with small mochi balls and sweetened chestnut; and green tea cake filled with whipped cream, along with a long pretzel.
Morning breakfast consisted mainly of congee (a soft rice porridge) with mochi (pounded sticky rice cake).
It's a good day today - rice, ham and vegetable mix, a hunk of fried chicken complete with skin, and mochi (a chewy substance made by pounding rice for hours) on a stick.
Items offered at the altar to deities included traditional Hakka rice cakes, ginger, brown sugar, tea leaves, green onions, mochi and sweet potatoes, representing foods that come from the mountains.