Nanchang white sugar cake is a popular traditional snack in Nanchang, which originated in Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the Republic of China, this kind of white sugar cake has been a standing food for tea in major tea shops in Nanchang streets and lanes, and is known as "five traditional famous spots in Jiangxi" and "ten special snacks in Nanchang". It is sweet, refreshing, elastic and tough. High-quality glutinous rice is soaked, washed and filtered, pounded into fine powder in a stone mortar, kneaded with boiling water, rolled into thin strips, spread into thin sheets, stacked in layers, bent into circles, fried until golden, filtered from the pan, and mixed with white sugar and rice flour and sprinkled on the cake. Waxy is soft and sweet, crisp on the surface and tender on the inside. Its characteristics are fragrant, soft and white, and its surface is stained with Jiangxi's unique mixture of frozen rice flour and sugar, which has a unique flavor when eaten.

In April, 2000, it was rated as "China Famous Spot" by the State Bureau of Domestic Trade, and won the gold medal in the first Chinese Food Festival held in Hangzhou in January, 2000.