I include New Year holidays and tend to eat a rice cake in this time. I include the country, and there is very few that I make rice cake in a house now. I buy the thing which I pack the rice cake in a bag, and is sold and eat. I saw the thing named the electric rice-cake pounder device, but have not heard that I used this. I borrowed this in my house without a mallet and a mortar in the old days and made rice cake in family. I observed the celebration rice cake making as well as last year to satisfy this homesickness.