The staple food of Chizhou residents is rice: indica rice for cooking, glutinous rice for milling and steaming or fried rice. Edible coarse cereals are mainly corn and sweet potato. In the city, all kinds of breakfasts and cakes are made of flour. Wheat flour is used as "noodle soup" in rural areas all over the country. Corn flour is used to make rice cakes (kimchi stuffing), and "sprout reed paste" vegetable oil (locally called sesame oil) is the main edible oil.