Muchi

Mūchī or muchi (Okinawan: ムーチー/餅), also known as Unimūchī (Okinawan: 鬼餅, Japanese: Onimochi), is a type of soft confectionery made of pounded glutinous rice and eaten in Okinawa Prefecture. Mūchī means "rice cake" in the Okinawan language, sometimes called kāsā-mūchī from the fact that it is wrapped in the leaves of shell ginger. After the mūchī is seasoned with brown sugar, white sugar, purple yam and so on, it is wrapped and steamed. In December, it is eaten as a lucky charm for the prayer of health and longevity. Also, from the end of January to early February of the Gregorian calendar is the coldest season in Okinawa, and it is called mūchī-bīsa over this period in Okinawan. “Families will prepare mūchī together, making dozens of individual ones called kāsā-mūchī, and may even make a huge one, called chikara-mūchī, and eat the big one together.

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