Glutinous rice cake is a Hong Kong dessert made from glutinous rice flour.

Sticky rice cake is a Hong Kong dessert, the main material is glutinous rice flour, usually with fillings such as bean paste or lotus seed paste, but also without any fillings. It is made by mixing glutinous rice flour, sugar and coconut milk to make a dough, then choosing whether or not to wrap it in filling, and then putting it into boiling water to cook, and then dipping it in shredded coconut or tapioca when it cools.

So why are sticky rice patties also called Scholar's patties? Here's a story:

Legend has it that in the Southern Song Dynasty, in the second year of the Qing Yuan, the euphonious Zou Yinglong went to Beijing to take the examination, the village families sent patties for him to eat on the road, and wished him success in the examination. On the way, Zou Yinglong thirsty, drink a few mouthfuls of spring, hungry, nibble on a few mouthfuls of patties. After a long journey to Kyoto, due to the outstanding talent, the temple examination answer, the emperor Ning Zong Royal Pen personally point him to the top grade and the first. When he brought from his hometown patties presented to the emperor to taste, even the emperor is also full of praise, given the name "Scholar patties".

Sticky rice patties made of raw materials with the local texture pure, transparent hoe rice, soaked in water for three or four hours, steamed with a high fire, poured into a stone mortar, two people with a wooden pestle and mortar, one on top of the next round of pounding the rice into a paste ball, and then while the heat of the palms of both palms to raise the force thrown, the whole mortar patties will be placed in a complete and well-prepared dustpan, around the waiting for pinch the patties of the people, dipped in some hands! Oil, the patties into three or four small patties, and then the small patties rolled into a mushroom, from the thumb and forefinger gap between the ping-pong ball-sized patties, thrown into the soybean flour, peanut flour, sesame, sugar and other seasonings put in the basin, rolling, when the white patties dipped in the powder, the color of a grain of patties into a yellowish, soft and tough, sweet and tasty. If they are not eaten right away, they are not dipped in the powder, but are neatly arranged to dry slowly. The air-dried patties can be eaten in a variety of ways, and in addition to being eaten by guests, they are also good gifts for friends and relatives.

As shown in the picture: Gnocchi:

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