Patty cake, all counties and cities in northern Fujian, and Wuyi Mountain is the most prevalent, patty cake is based on glutinous rice as the main ingredient, soaked in water and set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a stone scoop until soft and pliable. While it is still hot, the rice paste is made into large or small balls, which are rolled in a plate with sesame seeds fried and ground and mixed with sugar (or soybeans fried and ground and mixed with sugar), and can be eaten. The taste is sweet. Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles to sell, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shake the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to make brown sugar mochi to entertain the guests, in order to show good luck.
Specific method: glutinous rice soaked for more than a day, filtered dry water, placed in a wooden retort steamed. Then poured into the stone mortar pounded rotten to gelatinous, in a clean vessel sprinkled with some glutinous rice flour, will be pounded rotten glutinous rice on its rubbing, pinched into a small ball or cake, but also with a special mold printed into a variety of patterns, placed in a ventilated dry place to shade dry. After drying, they can be immersed in water to preserve them for a long time. There are many ways to eat, can be fried, can be boiled, can be roasted, can be boiled with sweet wine with sugar, can also be heated in the microwave oven.