Many northerners don't know what it is, and many southerners in Renye Fang may not know what it is. ......

In June 2020, he came to Shangrao, Jiangxi, and came to Damaoshan, Dexing.

Located in the geographical center surrounded by Sanqing Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Wuyuan and Jingdezhen, Damao Mountain in Dexing is another peak of Huaiyu Mountain. Damao Mountain is a national AAAA tourist attraction with many interesting and beautiful places. I fell in love with it at once.

There is a fairy tale village in Damaoshan Scenic Area, which I have been to twice. I was deeply impressed by the simple folk customs here and the kindness and hospitality of the villagers.

In this village, I saw many local snacks, such as Banguo, Taro Fruit, Five Old Fruits and Green jiaozi. This was unheard of before. I was surprised after tasting it. This delicious food has been hidden for too long.

The second time I went to Fairy Tale Village, I saw the whole village washing sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes here are very special, round and big, and should be very high-yielding.

Ask them what they are doing washing sweet potatoes, saying that they are making "sweet potato powder", but they are actually making starch, using the most primitive and rustic method.

So what is the purpose of making sweet potato powder? The villagers told me that they kept it for their own families, mainly to make black glutinous rice.

It turns out that the most important local snack is Wu Lao Guo, and Wu Lao Guo must also use sweet potato powder made of a special sweet potato grown locally. Although it looks ugly and "stupid and thick", the sweet potato powder is very suitable for making five old fruits.

What kind of snack is this black Lao Guo?

Say "Guo" first. "Guo" refers to the food in which glutinous rice and japonica rice are first ground into powder and then extended to cakes and snacks.

And "Guo" has derived various names because of adding various ingredients, such as sweet fruit, vegetable fruit, tsaoko, taro fruit, ginkgo and so on.

"Wu Lao Guo" is such a kind of food. It is a specialty of Dexing in Shangrao, Jiangxi. There is no other place, and foreigners will not do it.

In short, black glutinous rice dumplings are a kind of stuffed food. It looks like a steamed bread, steamed in a drawer, but it is very different from steamed bread, that is, on the skin.

The skin of black glutinous rice cake is not made of ordinary flour, but of sweet potato flour. Only in this way can the skin of black glutinous rice cake be crystal clear, elastic and as thin as a layer of paper, which can only be done by local old sweet potatoes.

The stuffing of five old fruits is actually not complicated. It is made of tofu, lean meat, vegetables and even bean sprouts, and its taste is relatively light but not greasy. According to local tastes, it will be made into salty, spicy, fragrant and so on, and then steamed in a pot for a few minutes.

Locals say it's legendary. This folk food has a long history and is deeply loved, but little is known to the outside world.

The production of black glutinous rice cake seems simple, but in fact it has great learning and difficulty. In addition to using special sweet potato powder, there are many problems about making skins, fillings, packaging and steaming.

All delicious things are inherited and excavated through the years, and food culture is the root of a region's traditional culture, which exists in the memory of generations.

Nowadays, more and more people from other places recognize and love this kind of niche food, and Wu Xiang, who has gone out of Damaoshan and Dexing, has gone further.