Mochi is not so sweet, but more tasteful and beautiful, easier to eat, and less dangerous. But if you eat some mochi, remember to chew your food properly before swallowing. It may be safer.
Mochi is very popular in Japan. Especially when the new year. The food turned out chewy and soft dangerous if not careful eating. And the victims are elderly generally due to choking on mochi.
Foreigners who are trying for the first time is often seen as a food chewy mochi, sticky, and difficult to eat. Jika not careful eating, food this tiny can make you go in the emergency room (ER).
According to the Tokyo Fire Department (in Japanese firefighters run ambulance service), as quoted Rocketnews24, Friday (01/04/2013), mochi choking incident involving the death of two people and causing 15 men and women to be hospitalized.
Mochi is often interpreted as 'rice cake', but this is not like a cake at all.
Mochi can be like a 'sticky rice' soft. Usually in that it contains sweet peas, strawberries or ice cream, or creamy rice.
Mochi is made with rice in a container hit repeatedly with a giant mallet. It's fun but tiring.
During the New Year, which sells mochi is called kagami mochi, which serves as a decoration and just eaten after January 1.
Mochi flavor is not too sweet so little food is popular the elderly population in Japan. On New Year 2013, the case was not fatal choking. One was aged 90 years, eight people in their 80s, and 3 people aged 70 and three aged 60 years.
On January 1, a 68-year-old man in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, was taken to hospital after choking on mochi is eaten at home. He died shortly after eating mochi.
The next day at the nearby Shibuya, 83 year old man who was eating homemade mochi died after falling unconscious due to suffocation.
If you've celebrated New Year in Japan, you may want to avoid mochi. It would not be good if you are the type of people who eat quickly can be fatal.
