Mochi vs. Mocha — What's the Difference?

Mochi (餅•もち, lit. 'glutinous rice cake') is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome, a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape.

A type of fine-quality coffee

Cooked sticky rice pounded into a paste, formed into balls or cakes, and used to make sweets and savory dishes in Japanese cuisine.

A soft kind of leather made from sheepskin.

A cake formed from such paste.

A rich pungent Arabian coffee.

The variety of short-grain rice, having a sticky, glutinous consistency when cooked, used to make mochi. Also called mochi rice.

Coffee of high quality.

A Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.

A coffee beverage flavored with milk, sugar, and cocoa.

A serving of any of these beverages.

A flavoring made of coffee mixed with chocolate.

A soft, thin, suede-finished glove leather usually made from sheepskin.

A dark olive brown.

(countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.

A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.

(color) A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

A strong Arabian coffee.

Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.

(historical) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.

A seaport town of Yemen, on the Red Sea, also spelled Mukha.

A variety of coffee originally brought from Mocha.

An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

A flavoring made from an infusion of coffee or of a combination of coffee with chocolate or cocoa.

A color of a deep chocolate brown.

Soft suede glove leather from goatskin

Flavoring made from mixed coffee and chocolate

Superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia