Pounding and eating mochi offers good luck, health, prosperity and happiness.

Nevertheless, Asian tea culture and Chinese cousins of wagashi--moon cakes and red-bean desserts--are working their way mainstream. What's more, if you're invited to a Japanese home over the ...

on Saturday, Dec. 28, from 2-4 p.m. The organizers said the mochi will be served with a variety of Japanese flavors such as Anko (sweet Azuki red bean paste), Kinako (roasted soybean powder ...