The origin of mochi is the southern region of China, mochi is based on glutinous rice, potatoes as the main ingredients, soaked in water and then set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a mortar until soft and pliable, while hot, will be made into a large or small rice mud can be a small ball, set aside sesame stir-fried flour mixed with sugar (or soybean stir-fried flour mixed with sugar) in the plate rolling, you can take food. The taste is sweet.

Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles selling, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shake the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. But whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to make brown sugar mochi to entertain the guests, in order to show good luck.

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People in most areas are accustomed to playing mochi in the month of Lunar New Year; in the Hakka area of Meizhou whenever there are traditional festivals or family celebrations; and people in the Sichuan area make it before the Mid-Autumn Festival to symbolize a good harvest, festivities, and reunion, and it's the Mid-Autumn Festival and the mooncake together! must-have delicacies.

In some places in the Sichuan folk, adding cinnamon in the patties pounded made of cinnamon patties, dipped in fried soybean noodles and sugar to eat, the taste of the quiet and elegant, sweet and refreshing, a distinctive flavor.

Some other places in the hot patties wrapped in cooked red beans and other soy products, add the right amount of salt, cut into oval-shaped pieces into the cooked vegetable oil deep-fried, made of red bean oil patties, color, aroma and taste are excellent. People in Hubei are also used to playing mochi in the waxing moon, the mochi cut into long strips to save, to be eaten and then cut into slices.