Mochi

Mochi (餅) is a rice-based confectionary and a choking hazard popular in Japan. There are many variations, such as mochi mixed or filled with anko, and several of these are holiday treats. Kagami mochi (鏡餅), for instance, is a luxurious type of mochi set on a pedestal and topped with a daidai that is prepared and eaten to celebrate the new year.

Fiction

Super-God Masterforce comic

The Decepticons had prepared everything to throw Cancer and Browning a surprise New Year's Eve party, decorations and kagami mochi and all, but because Cancer believed that there would be no celebrations, he left the base to enjoy the festivities in his home city. There was a lot of trouble before the Decepticons got him back. While Cancer was consoled by Mega, Browning happily began working on a kagami mochi of his own. The Great Turnabout of the Autobots

Comedy Beast Wars

Rattrap had his kagami mochi ready and was all set to celebrate New Year's Eve 1997. Bare-Brained New Year

Beast Wars II

The sweet-toothed Moon misheard "Angolmois Energy" as "ankoro mochi energy" in the "Artemis & Moon II Report". The Lake Trap

Transformers Go! Go!

For the Year of the Dragon, a dragon visited the Autobots and curled up in the shape of a kagami mochi as the Autobots completed the decorations. It's anyone's guess where they got a daidai that big. Go! Go! issue 33 On New Year, Elita One had the Autobots hammer rice paste, with instructions that everyone must hammer the paste one hundred times each. It took until sunset for Bumblebee to make the final strike, after which Ultra Magnus made everyone mochi. Go! Go! issue 46

External links

• Mochi at Wikipedia
• Kagami mochi at Wikipedia