Ciba, or sticky rice cake, is Sichuan’s version of the brown sugar mochi that is ubiquitous in so many Asian food cultures. This is usually made from heavily pounding steamed sticky rice until it ...

The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice ...