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kuzumochi

kuzumochi noun: mochi cakes made of kudzu powder or from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch, a speciality dish local to certain wards of Tokyo, served chilled and topped with kuromitsu and kinako.

kuzumochi: mochi cakes made of kudzu powder or from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch, a speciality dish...
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Noun

kuzumochi (uncountable)

  1. Mochi cakes made of kudzu powder or from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch, a speciality dish local to certain wards of Tokyo, served chilled and topped with kuromitsu and kinako.
    • She pushed her half-eaten kuzumochi toward me. “Here, you can finish my dessert.[…]”2017, Lou Antonelli, Another Girl, Another Planet, Monument, Colo.: WordFire Press, →ISBN
    • Top with a little fig and close the plastic wrap in such a way that the kuzumochi engulfs the fig (in a sac).2018, Albert Raurich, Dos palillos: A Culinary Conversation with Japan and Asia, RBA Libros, →ISBN, page 383

Examples of kuzumochi in a sentence

  • From kuzumochi, to dango, to Western-style dorayaki, all sorts of attractive shops enticed the girls who had just learned of the subtle yet delicious taste of Japanese confectionaries.2020, Makishima Suzuki, translated by Hiroya Watanabe, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, volume 6, J-Novel Club, published 2021, →ISBN:
  • It features kona abalone, heart of palm, lobster bisque, green beans, kuzumochi, tenderloin with onion soy sauce, duck with foie gras sauce and much more.2021 April 25, Dining Out (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), page 17:

Origin of kuzumochi

From Japanese 葛餅 (kuzumochi).

Questions about kuzumochi

What does kuzumochi mean?
Kuzumochi means mochi cakes made of kudzu powder or from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch, a speciality dish local to certain wards of Tokyo, served chilled and topped with kuromitsu and kinako.
How do you use kuzumochi in a sentence?
From kuzumochi, to dango, to Western-style dorayaki, all sorts of attractive shops enticed the girls who had just learned of the subtle yet delicious taste of Japanese confectionaries.
What part of speech is kuzumochi?
Kuzumochi is a noun.

Words near kuzumochi in the dictionary

  1. Kuzniars
  2. Kuznias
  3. Kuznicki
  4. Kuznickis
  5. kuzu
  6. kuzumochi
  7. kuzushiji
  8. Kuzzilbash
  9. Kuzzilbashes
  10. Kuźnica
  11. KV

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