The rice for dumplings should be soaked for about 3 hours. Sticky rice only needs to be soaked for 3 hours to wrap the dumplings, which allows the sticky rice to absorb some water, but also does not become too soft, nutrition, flavor and texture are taken into account. There are 2 kinds of glutinous rice, one is long-grain glutinous rice, the other is round-grain glutinous rice, although both are glutinous rice, but they are very different. Round-grained glutinous rice is Japonica glutinous rice, the texture is soft, easy to rot after cooking, the taste is not good. And long grain glutinous rice is indica glutinous rice, hard texture, rice flavor, cooked toughness, viscosity is very strong, wrapped out of the dumplings taste good, flavor.