Hot Mochi Soup – A Deadly Japanese Specialty

Considered one of the traditional Japanese dishes, the hot mochi soup is the cause of hundreds of people hospitalized each year, even death.
Hot mochi soup - a deadly Japanese specialty
Ozoni is a traditional Japanese soup with broth made from miso or dashi kombu, vegetables, seafood, and mochi rice cakes. This is a popular dish in Japan during the cold season, and is also eaten on the occasion of the year, New Year's Eve. Photo: Serious Eats.
This hot mochi soup is used to worship on New Year's Eve or to eat on the morning of the first day of the new year to bring health, luck and prosperity to the enjoyers

. Each ingredient in the soup has its own meaning. Photo: Sakagura.
Mochi stands for longevity due to its toughness Local foods such as carrots, turnips, spinach .



.. symbolize good crops. Fish meat symbolizes success, prosperity, and lotus root is a symbol of life's cycle. Photo: Okayama-kanto.
Each region, families have different ways of making ozonium. Basically, there are two types, Kanto and Kansai, with the main differences being the way the broth is cooked and the type of mochi used Photo: Serious Eats.




In it, the Kansai style has a broth of white miso soup and a round rice cake. Meanwhile, people in the Kanto region use rectangular cakes, grilled before adding to clear broth, soy sauce flavor. Photo: Hisgo.
Hot mochi soup is not only nutritious, but also popular for its chewy, hot mochi cake, which is suitable for eating in the cold season. However, because mochi are too pliable, they have the potential to cause choking, suffocation, especially for the elderly and young children. Photo: Serious Eats.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, the number of people hospitalized for mochi cakes of all kinds is up to hundreds of people each year, even some deaths, in this city alone. Only on January 1 and January 2, Tokyo had 15 people hospitalized for mochi, of which an 80-year-old man did not survive because he choked mochi in ozoni soup.



Photo: Omatugi.
Therefore, the Tokyo Fire Department recommends that people cut the cake into small pieces before enjoying hot mochi soup, especially when feeding the elderly and children, to ensure safety. At the same time, you should eat slowly and chew thoroughly before swallowing. Photo: Serious Eats.
According to An Ngoc / Zing news
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