Mochi is made of glutinous rice.

Glutinous rice patties, also known as Scholar's patties, are a traditional specialty. Sticky rice patties are processed with glutinous rice as the main ingredient and supplemented with other condiments. Mochi is made by putting cooked glutinous rice into a stone trough and pounding it into mud with a stone hammer, and is a popular delicacy in some parts of southern China. (Due to local differences, some also use bamboo instead).

Specific method:

Soak the glutinous rice for more than a day, strain the water, and place it in a wooden steamer. Then poured into the stone mortar pounded to gelatinous, in a clean vessel sprinkled with some glutinous rice powder, will be pounded on the glutinous rice rubbing, pinched into small balls or cakes, you can also use special molds printed into a variety of patterns, and placed in a ventilated dry place to dry. After drying, they can be immersed in water to preserve them for a long time. There are many ways to eat, can be fried, can be boiled, can be roasted, can be boiled with sweet wine with sugar, can also be heated in the microwave oven.

Features

Mochi, a snack of various ethnic groups in the south, is popular in southern China. Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have, and Henan Shouchuan, Jiangxi Jiujiang, Fujian Wuyishan area is the most prevalent, of which the practice of Guangxi Wuzhou is the most special. It is also found in the south of Anhui Province, mainly during the Chongyang Festival, as festival food for guests to savor.

Now street vendors use foot pedaled tricycles to sell, and the rice mud is put in special iron buckets with good heat preservation properties, and when the handle is shaken, the rice mud is drilled out from the round hole. But whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to do brown sugar patties to entertain guests, in order to show good luck.