The daily staple food of She nationality is mainly rice. Besides rice, there are various cakes made of rice, which are usually collectively referred to as "glutinous rice". She often eats three kinds of rice: indica rice, japonica rice and glutinous rice. In terms of viscosity, glutinous rice is the most sticky, followed by japonica rice, which is basically not sticky, but the yield of indica rice is the most, and indica rice is the most commonly eaten rice of She nationality. Indica rice is also often used as dry powder, that is, it is ground into powder, steamed with glutinous rice, then squeezed into filaments with a powder dryer, and then steamed thoroughly. It can also be dried and stored for a long time. Dry powder tastes delicious and is suitable for people who are afraid of greasy food. Indica rice and some fish rice can be ground into powder and steamed into various cakes. Rice flour is made into paste and steamed into water cakes. If brown sugar is added, steamed and weighed as a spoonful of sugar cake or red cake; Adding alkaline water, cooking, and weighing yellow cake; As long as salt is added, it is called white cake, collectively known as water cake. It can be stored after steaming. Add sesame seeds and peanuts to the surface of the sugar cake, store it hard, and steam it soft when eating. Yellow cakes can be preserved by soaking in grey alkaline water and cooked with other dishes and soups when eaten.

Japonica rice is mainly used to make rice cakes. When making rice cakes, glutinous rice flour is kneaded into dough and steamed, and then put into a rice cake extruder for pressurization. You can also choose local shrubs to burn to ashes, make alkaline water with water, soak fish and rice in water, dehydrate them, pour them into retort, then put them into mortar and knead them into balls, and knead them into long flat retort with 500-1000g. You can also stir-fry soft food with wine, which is only for tourism and labor. It's not hard when it's cold, and you can eat it at any time. Glutinous rice is mostly used to make wine and glutinous rice. Making Ciba with glutinous rice is to steam the glutinous rice first, then put it in a mortar and knead it into a cake the size of a moon cake. Dip in brown sugar and sesame powder and eat it while it is hot. It is sweet and soft. There is a folk saying that "cold zongzi is hot and crispy", which means that glutinous rice balls only taste hot. Besides rice, sweet potato is one of the staple foods of She farmers. In addition to direct cooking, sweet potatoes are mostly shredded first, washed away with starch, dried and stored in warehouses or barrels for annual consumption; There are also sweet potatoes cooked first, cut into strips, dried to 80%, and preserved for a long time. Cooked and dried sweet potatoes are mostly used as dry food and can be eaten directly. Some folks cut raw sweet potatoes into slices, boil them in boiling water until they are 80% ripe, take them out to dry or dry in the sun, and then fry them in sand or oil. They are often eaten and used to entertain guests during the New Year in China. The starch washed from sweet potato shreds is filtered several times and dried in the sun. A small part is used as dry starch for cooking, and most of it is used as vermicelli. The method is that dry starch is mixed with water to make paste, steamed in a steamer, cooled and hardened, then shredded and dried. Vermicelli is an important raw material for She people to entertain guests and make snacks and dishes.