Japanese Traditional Rice Cake Mochi Pounding Ceremony

Wed 01 Jan 2014, 2 pm
Nikko Hanoi Hotel

From the organizer:

Japanese people celebrate New Year as Christian calendar with many unique and special activities. Come to celebrate Japanese New Year with “Rice cake Mochi pounding ceremony”.

Mochi pounding is a tradition on the first day of the New Year with desire of luck, health and prosperity. Traditional Mochi is made from soft and sweet rice (called Mochi rice, or Mochiko). The rice is soaked overnight before cooked. Then the cooked rice is crushed in a large wooden mortar by 2 people until becoming sticky mass then formed into round shape.

The organizer will reappear a real traditional Mochi pounding as Japanese style. Besides that you will aslo have the chance to enjoy sake wine after the activity of “Brake the Sake”.

Free entry.