Types of rice dumplings: Jiaxing rice dumplings, Zhaoqing steamed rice dumplings, Minnan roasted pork rice dumplings, Guangxi pillow rice dumplings, Yunnan ham rice dumplings.

1. Jiaxing Zongzi

Jiaxing Zongzi is a famous traditional snack in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and is also a famous gourmet business card of Jiaxing. Jiaxing rice dumplings are famous for being glutinous but not mushy, fat but not greasy, fragrant and glutinous, with a moderate balance of salty and sweet. It is especially famous for its fresh meat rice dumplings, which are made from the finest white glutinous rice and hind leg meat. After the rice dumplings are cooked, the soft and glutinous rice grains stick together tightly but are not mushy, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

2. Zhaoqing steamed rice dumplings

Guangdong Zhaoqing steamed rice dumplings are a traditional specialty of Zhaoqing. They are made of Zhaoqing's unique local tangerine leaves and water plants. The main contents are glutinous rice, fine pork belly and various bean pastes. Soak white glutinous rice and dry it, fry it with fresh lard, add lean pork belly or fried pork belly, fill it with red shrimp or crab meat, and wrap the glutinous rice and stuffing with rice dumpling leaves. good.

3. Minnan Roast Meat Zongzi

Minnan Zongzi is a traditional local snack in Fujian Province and is a custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Southern Fujian rice dumplings are divided into alkaline rice dumplings, meat rice dumplings and bean rice dumplings. Among them, the roasted meat rice dumplings and alkaline water rice dumplings from Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Quanzhou in Fujian are famous at home and abroad. Quanzhou roasted pork rice dumplings can be called "luxury". They are extremely particular about the selection and production of ingredients. The ingredients are exquisite and diverse, and various delicacies from mountains and seas are added.

4. Guangxi pillow rice dumplings

Guangxi’s rice dumplings are elongated, like a plump pillow, with a plump shape and a slight arch in the middle. They are also called pillow rice dumplings. The fillings in Guangxi pillow rice dumplings are also very rich. There is a long piece of pork, half fat and half lean, filled with chestnuts, red beans, mung beans and so on. Guangxi pillow rice dumplings are much larger than other rice dumplings. Each one weighs three kilograms and needs to be wrapped in layers with ten rice dumpling leaves.

5. Yunnan ham rice dumplings

Yunnan ham is one of the three famous hams in my country. It uses Yunnan Xuanwei old ham cut into cubes. Its color is fresh and the meat is tender, with a unique flavor and soft texture. Tender and smooth white glutinous rice, moderately fat and thin diced ham are wrapped in the glutinous rice. After steaming, the purest fragrance spreads. The prepared ham is put into the glutinous rice. The fragrant ham is mixed with the fragrance of the glutinous rice, making every grain of rice They all have a special scent, which is simply salty and tempting.