Pronunciation

cí

bā

Glutinous rice is steamed in a wooden rice steamer, then pounded in a stone mortar until it becomes rotten, then taken out and kneaded Form into moderately sized glutinous rice balls, add sugar and serve. Or put it in a bamboo basket and roll it with a layer of glutinous rice flour (made by frying and grinding soybeans and adding brown sugar). Whenever there is a happy event, local people will make glutinous rice cakes mixed with brown sugar to entertain guests to show good luck.

The production process of glutinous rice cake is exquisite. After steaming the good glutinous rice, beat it with a pestle until the glutinous rice is completely melted,

like a cotton ball. Then take out the glutinous rice and make it into a ball, put it in a steamer and steam it. Water glutinous rice cakes are mostly filled with fillings, such as bean paste, lotus paste, sesame and osmanthus sugar, etc. The texture is delicate and flexible, and the white crystal is beautiful. If it is steaming when it comes out of the cage, it can be wrapped in some white sugar or cooked bean flour. It is delicious and fresh in color, with a smooth and sweet taste. It is one of the famous snacks in Guilin.

In the Hakka area of ??Meizhou, every traditional festival or family celebration has the custom of making glutinous rice cakes. The method of making glutinous rice cake is: take the best glutinous rice, preferably red rice glutinous rice with thin shell and soft texture, and process it into white glutinous rice. Soak the glutinous rice with water, put it into a wooden steamer to steam the glutinous rice, put it into a stone mortar, and pound it with a pestle. Therefore, the Hakka people call it "Da Ciba". Use a smooth wooden pestle for pounding glutinous rice cakes, as the glutinous rice grains will not stick to it. After pounding vigorously, it becomes a soup-like shape, and then made into glutinous rice cakes as big as eggs. Dip it into seasoning powder prepared with fried rice, peanuts, sesame seeds, brown sugar, etc. It tastes soft, smooth, sweet and delicious. There is a saying in the Hakka countryside: "In the October morning, glutinous rice cakes are cooked." It means that on the first day of the tenth lunar month, every household cooks steaming glutinous rice cakes.