Even though a new year has come, she has no mercy...

Mochi-coated toast?

What /is/ that, exactly? Reminds me of a marshmallow in a toaster.

Mochi is a sweet rice cake that's basically 99% sugar, 1% rice, and it's on a heater, which puffs it up (it does look like a marshmallow a bit now that you mentioned it). It's traditionally eaten at new year in Japan, I think.

Or, is it sugared? It might be made with special sweet rice, I don't know.

Made with glutinous rice. Not necessarily sweet by default.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi

Should explain things better than I ever could.

I ate mochi yesterday. Had to add soy sauce for it to have any taste at all... Not that I don't like it, it was simply... tasteless...

Ah, thanks for the info.

I'd heard about mochi before, but never knew anything about how it was eaten and all that.

rin is back to her old self then