The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...

Onna dango, the "woman" counterpart, has a red bean paste filling. Mochi is a Japanese rice cake that is steamed and often ...

The texture of dango is denser and chewier than mochi due to the use of rice flour instead of steamed, pounded rice. Dango are best eaten fresh and are typically served as a street snack.