Glutinous rice cake is a traditional cake snack made from glutinous rice and flour mixed with various ingredients. There are blood glutinous rice, black glutinous rice and other types.

Classification

Dessert, Cantonese cuisine

Taste

Sweet, sticky, soft

Main ingredients

Glutinous rice, flour, bean paste, oil

Rice cake is a specialty of the Jiangnan region. It has a long history and is one of the traditional snack foods with Chinese characteristics. Rice cakes are steamed from sticky rice or rice flour. They are easy to process and store, and can be eaten in a variety of ways, so they are very popular among the public. Rice cake has a long history and is one of China's traditional snack foods.

In the Han Dynasty, rice cakes were called "rice cake", "bait", "獍" and so on. Yang Xiong of the Han Dynasty already had the title of "cake" in his book "Dialect", and it became popular in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The ancients also had a development process in the production of rice cakes from rice cakes to powder cakes.