In general, after the rice dumpling leaves are cooked is to be put inside the cold water, this is to prevent the rice dumpling leaves dry and harden, package rice dumplings will not break deformation, so the rice dumpling leaves are cooked is needed to be placed in cool water inside the soak, with the use of the time to take out.

The best zongzi leaves are 3 kinds, the first is mistletoe leaves, mainly grown in the southern Shaanxi area, the leaves are large, not wrapped before the zongzi, there is a natural zongzi flavor. The second kind of leaves and the third kind of leaves believe that the northern and southern regions have, a kind of bamboo shoot shells, the south is more, and there is a kind of reed, which in the north and south of the Yangtze River area are more common. Package dumplings choose these kinds of leaves is better, one is resistant to cooking, not easy to rot, two is that these three kinds of leaves after cooking itself has a dumpling flavor.