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Sticky rice is steamed in a wooden rice steamer, poured into a stone mortar and pounded until it is rotten, then taken out and kneaded into a decent-sized patty cake ball, and then sweetened with sugar. Or put into a bamboo basket roll sticky layer of patty cake powder (soybean fried and ground into powder, mixed with brown sugar made) can be. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to do brown sugar mixed with mochi to entertain the guests, in order to show good luck.

Patty cake production process is delicate. After steaming the good glutinous rice, pestle and mortar until the glutinous rice all melted,

like a cotton ball, and then take out the glutinous pulp into a round ball, into the steamer to steam and become. Water patties are filled with fillings, such as bean paste, lotus seed paste, sesame and osmanthus sugar, etc. The texture is delicate and soft,

white crystal beauty, such as while the cage is steaming, and then wrapped in a bit of sugar or cooked soybean flour, it is a colorful and delicious freshness, the texture is smooth and refreshing sweetness. It is one of the famous snacks in Guilin.

In the Hakka region of Meizhou, every traditional festival or family celebration, there is the custom of making mochi. The method of making mochi is: take the best glutinous grain, preferably the thin shell of the soft red glutinous grain, processed into white glutinous rice. The glutinous rice is soaked with water, put into a wooden steamer to steam the glutinous rice, put into a stone mortar, and pounded with a pestle and mortar. This is why the Hakka people call it "patty cake pounding". The mortar and pestle used for pounding the rice patties should be smooth, so that the grains of glutinous rice will not stick to the mortar and pestle. The rice is then pounded and pounded hard to make it into a jelly-like consistency, and then made into egg-sized patties. Dipped in powdered seasonings made from fried rice, peanuts, sesame seeds, and yellow sugar, it tastes soft and smooth, and is sweet and savory. There is a saying in the Hakka countryside: "On the October morning, the patties are cooked." The saying is that on the first day of October in the lunar calendar, every family makes mochi steaming hot.