Japan New Year Mochi
Mochi continues to be japan s deadliest new year s food causes two deaths in tokyo on january 1.
Japan new year mochi. New year s food is colourful and plentiful and full of auspicious meaning but the most famous favoured and widely eaten nationwide is mochi 餅 sticky rice cakes. Last new year s two people reportedly died in tokyo after choking on mochi. Kagami mochi is the traditional new years house decoration made from two mochi stacked on top of each other decorated in various ways and placed on an altar.
The kagami mochi tradition stems from the muromachi period of japan the years between 1336 1573 in japan s history and is used to welcome the new year. It usually consists of two round mochi rice cakes the smaller placed atop the larger and a daidai a japanese bitter orange with an attached leaf on top. In 2001 a woman saved her father s life when she used a vacuum cleaner to pull mochi from her father s throat.
Kagami mochi 鏡餅 mirror rice cake is a traditional japanese new year decoration. In addition it may have a sheet of konbu and a skewer of dried persimmons under. A quick guide to kagami mochi the traditional japanese new year decorative cake amélie geeraert december 9 2020 during the end of the year and new year s holidays in japan you can see two donut shaped objects with a mandarin on top of it.
Häagen dazs releases new mochi ice cream and it s amazing. Japan s most dangerous new year s food causes death once again in tokyo. It is believed to represent the coming and going of years and the bitter orange on top called daidai is meant to represent the generations in a family as the words are pronounced similarly.