Pour glutinous rice flour into a bowl, put sugar into a small bowl, and add boiling water. After the sugar melts, pour it into glutinous rice flour and stir it evenly with chopsticks.

Then rub it by hand for five or six minutes. As shown in the figure, let it stand for ten minutes.

Knead glutinous rice with sugar into dough, knead it into balls and roll it up with white sesame seeds.

Put it in cold oil and fry it over low heat. Move slowly with a shovel until the hemp ball floats slightly. Press it gently with a colander, so it will grow slowly and fry until golden.

Ma Yuan, also known as Ma Tuan, is a special snack of Han nationality and a fried pasta in China. There are many names for hemp balls, such as hemp balls in North China, hemp balls in Northeast China, precious bags in Hainan and oil piles in Guangxi, all of which are common new year foods in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Hemp balls are made by kneading glutinous rice flour with sugar, lard and water, and then frying them in a pot. Because of its round shape and sesame seeds on the surface, it is named. Although hemp ball is just a very common snack, it is not complicated to make. Stir-fried with glutinous rice balls and sesame seeds, some wrapped in stuffing such as beef paste and bean paste, and some not.