Rice Cake
Rice cake is festival food meant for sharing, so it stands for celebration and goodwill. Traditional reading took receiving rice cake as a good omen of wealth and good news, and sharing it among several people as a time when things open up between them. The warmer and freshly steamed it is, the better it reads, and shaping the cakes means the effort you put in is taking form. Hardened or soured cake, by contrast, says handle what you have left sitting now.
Rice cake takes a great deal of work to make and is meant to be shared, so in dreams it carries care and sharing at once. Steaming rice cake and sending it round the neighbours counted as a virtue in itself, so a dream of it passing from hand to hand was read as goodwill circulating. The state of the cake decides the meaning.
Readings by Situation
Receiving rice cake
A good omen: something is on its way to your hands. Tradition read receiving food as fortune arriving. The warmer and freshly steamed it is, the better it reads.
Sharing rice cake among several people
A sign that things open up between people. Tradition read sharing as building merit. If you have been putting off a gathering, this is a good time to make one.
Shaping the cakes
A sign that the effort you put in is taking form. It signals work that takes time. If they came out well shaped, read the result as good.
Hardened or soured cake
A sign to handle now what you left sitting. Tradition too read spoiled food as a signal to stay away. If something has been deferred, it points there.
Rice cake is a symbol of celebration and sharing, so the dream is read well overall. But rice cake only means what it means when it is shared — if you were eating alone, it is worth asking whether the people you share with have thinned out.