Kate L Pugh wrote:

Ganmo (short for *gan-modoki*, meaning "fake goose")
^^^^^

Hey, this sounds good. I'm not going to make it, since I don't want
to deep-fry until I replace my cooker hood filter, and that's never
going to happen, but it sounds good

I'll admit I don't often make them myself, since I can go out and buy
several different types of ganmo in the local supermarkets.....

How does a Japanese pestle and mortar differ from other pestles and
mortars? (I always have trouble with the plural of that.)

Avoid the problem by not using a plural? ("...differ from any other kind
of pestle and mortar?"?)

The one I
have is marble, about 10cm (4in) in diameter, and smooth inside. It
was the smallest of three available in the range.

The bowl (is that the pestle, or is it the mortar?) is pottery, with
ridges on the inside formed by running some sort of comb over the
surface just before it dries, and the rod is wood--completely different
from a Western-style combo.

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