Popular in southern China. Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Guangdong, Hainan and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and in Jiangxi Jian Jinggangshan, Fujian Nanping Wuyishan area is most prevalent.

It is also found in the southern part of Anhui Province, mainly during the Chung Yeung Festival, as festival food for guests to savor. Patty cake is based on glutinous rice, potato as the main ingredient, soaked in water and then set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a stone ladle until soft and pliable, while hot, will be made into a large or small rice mud can be a small ball, set aside sesame seeds fried and ground powder mixed with sugar (or soybeans fried and ground powder mixed with sugar) in the plate rolling, you can eat. The taste is sweet.

Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles to sell, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shaking the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to make brown sugar mochi to entertain the guests, in order to show good luck.