1 Differences in Dietary Culture The New Year's cake is a traditional food of the Chinese nation and a seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. It is red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver, which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. In many parts of China, there is a custom of eating New Year's cakes.

Ciba is a snack of all ethnic groups in the south, which is popular in the south of China, but rarely seen in the north. According to different customs in different regions, most regions are used to playing Ciba in the twelfth lunar month. In Sichuan and other places, it is customary to make it before the Mid-Autumn Festival, symbolizing harvest, celebration and reunion.

2 Differences in production methods The rice cake is made by directly grinding raw glutinous rice into powder with a stone mill or directly standing glutinous rice flour and water, and then steaming. After being shaped, it can be fried or steamed; Ciba, on the other hand, is made by putting cooked glutinous rice into a stone trough and mashing it with a stone hammer. After making it, it can be eaten directly, steamed or cooked.

3 Differences in taste Because rice cakes are mostly made of glutinous rice flour, the taste is relatively delicate and sticky; Ciba is made of whole glutinous rice by steaming, so the graininess will be more obvious and the stickiness will be stronger than that of rice cakes.

4 which is delicious, rice cake or zanba, depends on the personal taste.

Rice cakes are mostly made of glutinous rice flour, which will be more delicate, elastic and slippery and slightly sticky. The glutinous rice that is eaten by Ciba is made by steaming, which is relatively more grainy, softer and more sticky. Both of them have their own unique flavors. It is impossible to say which one is better, but it can be decided according to personal preferences.