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Nine choke to death on Japanese New Year delicacies

Published: 4 January 2015

Naked men in loinclothes pound steamed rice into a mochi, rice cake to celebrate the New Year at the Kanda shrine in Tokyo on January 1, 2015. – AFP pic, January 4, 2015.

Nine people have choked to death in Japan after eating traditional glutinous "mochi" rice cakes to celebrate the New Year, an official and local media said Sunday.

In Tokyo alone, 18 people were sent to hospital due to suffocation after eating the New Year delicacy, and three of them died, a fire department official said.

The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said the death toll from rice cake accidents reached nine by Friday across the nation and 13 others were in a serious condition.

During the New Year period, one of Japan's biggest holidays, families traditionally cook "ozouni" soup and put the sticky rice cakes in the vegetable broth.

The fire department is advising people, especially the elderly and infants, to cut mochi into small pieces before eating it.

Every year, several Japanese die after choking on rice cakes. – AFP, January 4, 2015.

 

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/nine-choke-to-death-on-japanese-new-year-delicacies

 

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Turbocharged

Not everyone can eat like 蛇吞象 snake swallowing an elephant, no matter how deep his or her throat is !!!!

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Not everyone can eat like 蛇吞象 snake swallowing an elephant, no matter how deep his or her throat is !!!!

Only [scholar] Bro Tigerwoods can, he love " mochi / 摸 鸡 " -_-

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Just eat carefully, smaller pieces at a time...

This will apply to everyone, be it our young or the oldies...

Yes, don't swallow our food too quickly ---- even a small piece of food can get stuck in our "wind pipe" and this can coke us!!! I have seen friends nearly coked themselves while eating+laughing, or talking.

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Just eat carefully, smaller pieces at a time...

This will apply to everyone, be it our young or the oldies...

Japanese Mochi rice cakes is extremely sticky, beside the larger size that could be harmful, it may stuck in the throat causing suffocation.

Be safe not to eat it while you are touring Japan.

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Only [scholar] Bro Tigerwoods can, he love " mochi / 摸 鸡 " -_-

OT abit ----- if not careful with using GRC to "swallow" votes, it can backfire also :-(

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looking at your avatar, tink Ah Kim is at risk of choking on almost anything sia [laugh]

Your previous [gorgeous] avatar choked me :huh: more than 2 years, I sometimes have to close my eyes -_- to survive [laugh]

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Ah kim even eat porridge also will choke haha

Your ah kim made a big mistake [hur] in public, that's why :o his face looks like that [smallcry][bigcry]

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do risk assessment of radiation too.

 

Japanese Mochi rice cakes is extremely sticky, beside the larger size that could be harmful, it may stuck in the throat causing suffocation.

Be safe not to eat it while you are touring Japan.

 

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Just bite into smaller pcs and eat. Don't be greedy to eat the whole thing in one go

 

Another dangerous food we have is the fishball. Always cut half before eating

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