Rice Cake with Pork Spare Ribs is an affordable and unique traditional snack in Shanghai.

Pork ribs with small, thin rice cakes, blanch, boil and become, both the ribs of the aroma, but also rice cakes of the soft and crispy, very tasty. Ribs fat tender and fresh, thick flavor, rice cakes fresh and moist, not greasy, blanching by ribs oil, with ribs flavor. Spare ribs golden color, crispy surface, tender meat. Glutinous in the incense, slightly sweet and spicy flavor, tender and palatable.

The taste of rice cake varies from place to place, the southern rice cake is both sweet and salty. For example, the rice cakes in Hangzhou and Ningbo are made from top-grade round-grained rice and have a light flavor. In addition to steaming and deep-frying, they can also be stir-fried or boiled in soup. Sweet rice cakes are made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, lard, and toppings such as roses, osmanthus, mint, and veggie paste according to one's taste.

Review of the dish

The beauty of the rice cake with pork ribs is that the rice cake goes well with the pork ribs. The rice cake is also a vegetarian dish that relies on gravy to enhance its flavor, but the rice cake's absorption of gravy is different from other foods. Although it is wrapped in the soup and filled with the richness of the gravy, the rice cake retains its own sticky flavor and toughness without losing its balance.

It's not like the white radish, where the flavor becomes muddled after absorbing the broth, and it doesn't have its original crispness. Of course, it's not like carrots. Although carrots are immersed in the gravy, they don't absorb the meat flavor and retain the carrot's original color, so it's no wonder so many people don't like carrots. The rice cake lends a meaty flavor to the broth while still retaining its own distinctive flavor and texture, a balance that makes the rice cake with pork ribs a delicate dish, while the vermicelli with pork ribs or frozen tofu with pork ribs becomes a big pot dish.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice Cake with Spare Ribs for more information