Rice cakes are a staple winter food for Japanese. They can come in various shapes. The shape you see here, a dome-shape, is the commonest.You heat rice cakes in an oven for several minutes before you eat them. Hot rice cakes are very sticky. Many elder people choke on them and die every winter. According to the Japanese version of Wikipedia, domestic vaccum cleaners can be used to suck the cakes out of the choked throats.
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are they sweet? is that sugar?
...it looks like a malasada
As the name agrees, rice cakes are made of rice. They are plain. You can add tastes with various seasonings. Typically we dip them in soy sauce. Of cource you can use some sugar, if you want.
If you really want to try rice cakes, email me. I can send some.
i do not know of rice that glistens as such...please explain.
Does it? Well..., I'd say that the cake just looks shiny due to some lighting effects. The surface of a rice cake is usually very smooth. So it partly reflects light. When photographed, the reflection could become more noticeable than it is. Anyway, rice cakes do not glisten on their own.
I hope that helps.
Well, you don't have to polish them. I think they are originally blinding. Don't dazzle your night partners.
wait a minute. how do you say heimlich in japanese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich
or do you use the manuver at all? no wonder old people expire waiting for vacuum cleaners. maybe someday the japanese wikipedia will be as advanced as the american one and less old folks will meet with tragic ends.
-- from the nation's capital
Heimlich's method doesn't work for Japanese. A very close examination has shown that Japanese throats are completely diffrent in structure from those of American. I mean Japanese vaccum cleaners are absolutely unbeatable, when it comes to save choked people.
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