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Mochi-tsuki

January 3, 2010 Blog
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My boyfriend has been taking a Japanese class for almost 4 years now. At the end of every year, his school has a “mochi-tsuki” (rice cake pounding) event. We went there at the end of last year, and had a lot of fun! So I decided to share it with you. Rice cakes are made with mochi-rice (stickier than the regular sticky rice) made soft [...]

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non-bento #6: "real" rice cake

February 28, 2009 bento
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This isn’t a bento, but I really liked how it turned out and it was easy, so I’m going to post it! Like I mentioned, my bento caught up with my blog, and I didn’t make bento for Saturday… So I was thinking about doing a dinner blog. But I got up earlier than usual for a Saturday morning and went to the city to [...]

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