There are several famous rice rolls, rice rolls in Xiguan, rice rolls in Meizhou, rice rolls in Chaoshan, Chaozhou and rice rolls in Yunfu estuary. Although they are all called rice rolls, they all look the same, but they can feel the difference when eating. These delicious rice rolls have their own characteristics in materials and making methods, which is also the reason for their different tastes and mouthfeel. Although there is a saying that it is difficult for everyone to adjust, as long as a kind of food is rich enough, you don't have to worry too much. Rice rolls is such a typical example.
Rice rolls in Guangdong can be divided into two categories, if not regions. One of them is called bra rice rolls, and the other is called drawer rice rolls. The Xiguan rice rolls mentioned earlier is a typical Bula rice rolls, in which rice paste is steamed on a piece of cloth. The focus of this rice rolls is the taste of stuffing, not the taste of rice rolls's skin and sauce. Although the stuffing inside is changeable, rice rolls's skin is usually made of sticky rice flour mixed with raw flour, corn starch and corn flour.
The name of the drawer-type rice rolls comes from the shape of its own steamer, which is a wooden drawer. Compared with Bula rice rolls, this rice rolls is relatively simple to make, so some small shops on the street often sell this drawer-type rice rolls. Contrary to Bra rice rolls, the skin of this drawer-type rice rolls and rice rolls is pure rice paste, and the taste of rice rolls skin and sauce is the highlight, but the filling is not so important.
If you distinguish from the taste, it can be divided into salty taste and sweet taste. This distinction is judged by the taste of the stuffing. If all kinds of sugary foods are used as fillings, they are naturally sweet and delicious, and the fried sesame seeds are even more attractive. There will be all kinds of meat in the stuffing of salty rice rolls, accompanied by some refreshing vegetables and fragrant sauces. The taste is really intoxicating.
No matter what kind of rice rolls is, it has a fresh and tender skin, and the delicious stuffing inside makes everyone like this food more. Perhaps because there are so many kinds, there are different opinions about the origin of rice rolls. One of them is about the Hakka people who moved from the north to the south. They want to eat spring rolls in their hometown, but the climate is not suitable for growing wheat, so they use rice noodles instead. After a long period of improvement, this food was finally born.