R: I'm here! Hello! So, we're going to make mochi,

er, we're going to watch Jun's uncle make mochi.

R: And we get to eat it!

J: I can't see anything. But yeah.

R: Freshly-made mochi, which is really delicious!

R: I'm really excited. J: Okay. Let's go!

R: Okay. J: We're here!

R: This is regular rice, and this is mochi rice. You use this to make mochi.

R: Between regular rice and... Uncle(U): The color is different.

R: I can't really tell.

Aunt(A): Me neither.

J: Now he's turning the rice into mochi.

R: They put the dry rice mochi in the machine and it made it cooked mochi rice,

and now they're turning the mochi rice into mochi.

J: Yeah, in a rice cooker.

R: To me it tastes like normal rice; it's just sticky.

J: Yeah. The texture is different.

R: But the taste is about the same, right? J: Yeah.

R: It was fast!

A: It's done!

U: HOT!!

R: How do you say flour? It's a special mochi flour?

J: It's made of rice. Rice flour.

A: It's smooth, right? J: It is, isn't it.

J: It looks good.

A: You don't get the chance to eat fresh mochi often.

J: Freshly-made mochi is delicious.

J: I can't wait to eat it.

U: There you go.

R: It's so soft! J: Yeah.

R: It's amazing. J: It's really good, right?!

U: Hot hot hot hot hot hot

A: It's still hot?

U: This is freaking hot, dammit.

A: This is kagami mochi.

A: You put one on the other one.

R: Will we eat it with oroshi (grated radish)? A: Yep!

J: It's really good. R: Really?

J: Yeah. It goes well together.

A: Do you have your chopsticks? U: Get ready! Quick quick quick!

J: Get your chopsticks ready!

J: It smells really good!

A: I don't know if the sauce is weak or too spicy.

J: Thank you!

R: It's delicious!

A: Sorry if it's a little spicy! We didn't add much soy sauce.

J: Isn't it much better than the ones you get at the supermarket?

J: It's really good, isn't it?

R: It's so chewy!

J: Yeah.

J: This is freaking great.

A: It's good?

J: It's delicious.

U: It's so hot.

J: These are all good!

R: Mmm.

R: Can you mix it for me?

J: That? R: Yeah.

R: You mixed with the wrong end!

J: Sorry.

R: It's so goooood~

J: Everything's delicious.

R: Is this where the word "mochimochi" comes from? J: Yes.

J: Sticky.

J: This is probably ryokucha (green tea). I don't know what type.

J: It's expensive. It was a gift.

R: I've never had green tea this delicious before.

A: It's different from Sushiro, isn't it?

J: Yeah. This one's sweet.

J: High-quality tea has amino acids in it, which make it really delicious.

R: Yaki-mochi, so, fried-mochi.

J: Yeah, with the heater.

R: Because the mochi is so fresh, it just came out, you can't actually put it in a toaster oven.

R: It would melt everywhere.

R: So we can make it on top of the heater.

A: You should use a mikan instead.

J: We display it like that for the New Year.

R: It kind of looks like a snowman.

R: After that do you eat it?

U: Yep.

R: This soy sauce is really good, too.

J: That soy sauce I got at Wal-mart--that crappy one...

J: It was just... euuaghhhhh

R: American soy sauce?

J: Yeah, that was...

J: That was... ehhh

J: Your face explains everything.

R: It's so good!

J: Yeah, it's really good.

R: Can I have a little more, actually?

J: You want more?

J: Here you go!

A: Do you want nori (seaweed)?

J: Oh, do you have nori?

A: I don't know where the nori is, but I must have it somewhere...

J: Sorry, I forgot. Yeah.

R: Mochi with nori and soy sauce-

J: Right, norimaki (rolled with seaweed).

R: I love nori.

J: Thank you!

J: This is flavored nori. It's sweet by itself.

R: I haven't had nori that I don't like yet.

J: This is reeeeally good.

J: Here you go.

R: Thank you!

R: This is the best.

A: ??? [No one knows what she said here]

J: "The best."

R: Oh, we can see there, but...

R: Okay, we can't really see again, but we've received some mochi

R: that we get to take home, which is super delicious!

R: So, this is excit- AUGH can't see.

R: Oh, I can see! A little.

R: Well, it's just a box.

R: Your aunt and uncle are so nice!

J: I know. R: It was really delicious.

J: Yeah. Glad to hear.

A: You haven't seen mochitsuki (rice pounding), have you?

J: We went to Koike shrine.

A: Oh, you did?

J: Yeah.

A: Oh, that was a while ago, right?

R: Yeah.

A: Oh, that's right! Two years ago.

J: There are so many grandpas and grandmas.