Whether you’re making mochi cakes, mochi doughnuts, butter mochi, or…well, mochi mochi, the key ingredient for achieving that signature bouncy, chewy texture is mochiko, a type of Japanese rice flour.

Tourists watch the live handmade preparation of traditional yuanxiao at a fair on February 19, 2026, in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province. Photo: VCG ...

It’s a brisk February day, and the kitchen is covered in rice flour. My Taiwanese grandmother is standing on the old fiberboard pineapple cake box she uses to reach her stovetop. As her boiling pot ...

This sesame beef recipe dredges thin-sliced flank steak, cornstarch, rice flour, and sesame seeds for a quick fry. A sticky oyster sauce and Shaoxing wine glaze infused with garlic, ginger, sesame ...