Assorted Mochi
$12 play money
Soft rice cakes in six colours and fillings. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $12 in play money, which puts it in the Snack tier ($1 to $14). It is one of the small, cheap things that make an order feel real.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- Japanese
- Menu section
- Japanese
- Price tier
- Snack ($1 to $14)
- Play-money price
- $12
- Main ingredients
- sweet rice dough, assorted fillings
- How it is served
- Six soft round mochi in pastel pink, green and white on a dark tray
History, tradition and origin
Mooncakes are given and shared at the mid-autumn festival, when families gather to look at the full moon. In Japan, soft rice cakes are pounded for the new year, and sweets are made to match each season and to accompany green tea. A fine sponge cake brought by Portuguese traders in the 1500s became a speciality of Nagasaki.
Food economy and industry
Mooncakes are a seasonal business worth billions of dollars, with most sales packed into a few weeks and much of it corporate gifting in decorated boxes. Japan's traditional sweet makers are often family firms many generations old. Key ingredients are glutinous rice, red beans, lotus seeds and sugar.
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