Cooking Mama Will Make An Iron Chef Out Of You
Is anyone else as excited as I am about playing Cooking Mama: Cook Off on their Wii? Probably the only thing that would make me any happier is hearing tomorrow that that Okami rumor is true. Until that happy day, I will take pleasure in watching clips of the Cooking Mama saying "sugoy" and plans to challenge the bf into some Iron Chef like cook-offs (without any of the OCD invoking mess!) in which we grate... a rolling pin?
For the record, I don't know any type of dough kneading that involves repeatedly stabbing it with a big block of wood, consequently crushing one's hand bones into it. Maybe it's that thing I always see in anime that seems to get kids excited, presumably because it's sweet, where a person hits something gooey in a wooden mortar with a hammer? Can anyone tell me what that's called, because I just spent a half an hour trying to find it on wikipedia.
Pirate Prince
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 14 February 2007
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That would be mochi, and it's made from pounded sticky rice (hence the repeated pounding in the vid). It's traditionally eaten at the New Year or at special occasions. I think the white stuff you're thinking of from anime is onigiri, or rice balls. There, the rice isn't pounded, just shaped.
But mochi is very yummy, but extremely chewy. If you ever get a chance to try some, do. It's especially good orange or peanut-flavored.
Also, the "rolling pin" thingie being shredded appears to be a Daikon--a sort of large white radish. I think they lay strips of sushi on a bed of it.
It's mighty tasty diced and in a soup/stew.
I'm a big fan of sesame mochi:)
I just wanted to let you know that Freezair is right, you had to do the same thing in the DS version, pound the rice and then flip it without "hitting your hand".
I originally had some high hopes for Cooking Mama, but after playing the DS version and beating it in the "free time" of a week, (I'm a casual gamer with games like Wii Sports, Trauma Center [Wii], Animal Crossing [DS] etc), I was very disappointed how quickly I got all the recipes and how much of the time I was just doing the same thing over and over again, losing most of it's charm. The Wii Version is going to REALLY have to be good to make up for the lack of game on the DS. (Glad I got it used)
that's mochi!?! i eat that all the time, just had no idea it was made that way!
and i've had daikon before too, but it really does look like a rolling pin in the video!