The easiest way to save time is to use boiled glutinous rice, because usually glutinous rice is soaked in cold water one day in advance at home, so boiling glutinous rice will save a lot of time. Put glutinous rice directly in a water bottle and put it in hot water for 10 minute, and the effect is good, and the rice grains will be soaked and expanded.

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The glutinous rice cake, also known as the champion cake, has a history. According to legend, in the second year of Qingyuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zou Yinglong, a local citizen, went to Beijing to take an exam. Every household in the village sent glutinous rice cakes for him to eat on the way, and wished him to be no.1. On the way, Zou Yinglong was thirsty, drank a few mouthfuls of clear water, and when he was hungry, he chewed a few mouthfuls of Ciba. After a long journey to Kyoto, due to his outstanding talent, palace examination answered questions like a stream, and Emperor Ningzong ordered him to be the first scholar and the second. When he presented the Ciba brought from his hometown to the emperor for tasting, even the emperor was full of praise and gave him the name "No.1 Ciba".