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  • J: Okay, we can't see anything but here's Rachel!

  • R: I'm here! Hello! So, we're going to make mochi,

  • er, we're going to watch Jun's uncle make mochi.

  • R: And we get to eat it!

  • J: I can't see anything. But yeah.

  • R: Freshly-made mochi, which is really delicious!

  • R: I'm really excited. J: Okay. Let's go!

  • R: Okay. J: We're here!

  • R: This is regular rice, and this is mochi rice. You use this to make mochi.

  • R: Between regular rice and... Uncle(U): The color is different.

  • R: I can't really tell.

  • Aunt(A): Me neither.

  • J: Now he's turning the rice into mochi.

  • R: They put the dry rice mochi in the machine and it made it cooked mochi rice,

  • and now they're turning the mochi rice into mochi.

  • J: Yeah, in a rice cooker.

  • R: To me it tastes like normal rice; it's just sticky.

  • J: Yeah. The texture is different.

  • R: But the taste is about the same, right? J: Yeah.

  • R: It was fast!

  • A: It's done!

  • U: HOT!!

  • R: How do you say flour? It's a special mochi flour?

  • J: It's made of rice. Rice flour.

  • A: It's smooth, right? J: It is, isn't it.

  • J: It looks good.

  • A: You don't get the chance to eat fresh mochi often.

  • J: Freshly-made mochi is delicious.

  • J: I can't wait to eat it.

  • U: There you go.

  • R: It's so soft! J: Yeah.

  • R: It's amazing. J: It's really good, right?!

  • U: Hot hot hot hot hot hot

  • A: It's still hot?

  • U: This is freaking hot, dammit.

  • A: This is kagami mochi.

  • A: You put one on the other one.

  • R: Will we eat it with oroshi (grated radish)? A: Yep!

  • J: It's really good. R: Really?

  • J: Yeah. It goes well together.

  • A: Do you have your chopsticks? U: Get ready! Quick quick quick!

  • J: Get your chopsticks ready!

  • J: It smells really good!

  • A: I don't know if the sauce is weak or too spicy.

  • J: Thank you!

  • R: It's delicious!

  • A: Sorry if it's a little spicy! We didn't add much soy sauce.

  • J: Isn't it much better than the ones you get at the supermarket?

  • J: It's really good, isn't it?

  • R: It's so chewy!

  • J: Yeah.

  • J: This is freaking great.

  • A: It's good?

  • J: It's delicious.

  • U: It's so hot.

  • J: These are all good!

  • R: Mmm.

  • R: Can you mix it for me?

  • J: That? R: Yeah.

  • R: You mixed with the wrong end!

  • J: Sorry.

  • R: It's so goooood~

  • J: Everything's delicious.

  • R: Is this where the word "mochimochi" comes from? J: Yes.

  • J: Sticky.

  • J: This is probably ryokucha (green tea). I don't know what type.

  • J: It's expensive. It was a gift.

  • R: I've never had green tea this delicious before.

  • A: It's different from Sushiro, isn't it?

  • J: Yeah. This one's sweet.

  • J: High-quality tea has amino acids in it, which make it really delicious.

  • R: Yaki-mochi, so, fried-mochi.

  • J: Yeah, with the heater.

  • R: Because the mochi is so fresh, it just came out, you can't actually put it in a toaster oven.

  • R: It would melt everywhere.

  • R: So we can make it on top of the heater.

  • A: You should use a mikan instead.

  • J: We display it like that for the New Year.

  • R: It kind of looks like a snowman.

  • R: After that do you eat it?

  • U: Yep.

  • R: This soy sauce is really good, too.

  • J: That soy sauce I got at Wal-mart--that crappy one...

  • J: It was just... euuaghhhhh

  • R: American soy sauce?

  • J: Yeah, that was...

  • J: That was... ehhh

  • J: Your face explains everything.

  • R: It's so good!

  • J: Yeah, it's really good.

  • R: Can I have a little more, actually?

  • J: You want more?

  • J: Here you go!

  • A: Do you want nori (seaweed)?

  • J: Oh, do you have nori?

  • A: I don't know where the nori is, but I must have it somewhere...

  • J: Sorry, I forgot. Yeah.

  • R: Mochi with nori and soy sauce-

  • J: Right, norimaki (rolled with seaweed).

  • R: I love nori.

  • J: Thank you!

  • J: This is flavored nori. It's sweet by itself.

  • R: I haven't had nori that I don't like yet.

  • J: This is reeeeally good.

  • J: Here you go.

  • R: Thank you!

  • R: This is the best.

  • A: ??? [No one knows what she said here]

  • J: "The best."

  • R: Oh, we can see there, but...

  • R: Okay, we can't really see again, but we've received some mochi

  • R: that we get to take home, which is super delicious!

  • R: So, this is excit- AUGH can't see.

  • R: Oh, I can see! A little.

  • R: Well, it's just a box.

  • R: Your aunt and uncle are so nice!

  • J: I know. R: It was really delicious.

  • J: Yeah. Glad to hear.

  • A: You haven't seen mochitsuki (rice pounding), have you?

  • J: We went to Koike shrine.

  • A: Oh, you did?

  • J: Yeah.

  • A: Oh, that was a while ago, right?

  • R: Yeah.

  • A: Oh, that's right! Two years ago.

  • J: There are so many grandpas and grandmas.

J: Okay, we can't see anything but here's Rachel!

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