Mm, it's alright. Short-grain rice is what we usually eat back home... it's sticky, so it's easy to eat with chopsticks. And you use short-grain rice to make mochi, which... you've probably never had either, right?

[By now, he's in the kitchen, moving through the fridge with practiced ease to find the Sand Shark fillets and some of the carrots and broccoli from the farm.]

If we're still here for New Year's... I wonder if it'd be possible to pound mochi.