Step one: Soak the glutinous rice in water 4 hours in advance so that the rice will taste tough.

Step 2: Choose a handful of clean straw and burn it with fire. Use a dustpan to contain the ashes. Put the dustpan on a bucket and pour water on it. Then take out the soaked glutinous rice and put it in a bucket to soak. After two minutes, you can take it out and set aside. The function of this gray water filter is very special. It gives the rice dumplings a fresh fragrance and makes them golden in color and looks beautiful. Soil ash was a traditional method in the past, but now it is popular to use soda ash. The procedure is simpler. Mix the soaked rice with soda. The rice will turn golden brown as soon as it meets the soda. However, the taste of soda is not pure enough and does not have that refreshing fragrance.

Step 3: Wash the picked palm leaves with boiling water and prepare the rope to wrap the rice dumplings. If possible, it is best to use palm leaves to tie them and tear the palm leaves into strips. Yes, it becomes very flexible when scalded in boiling water. Since palm leaves also have a refreshing aroma, they will increase the aroma of rice palm. The flavor tied with string is not as good as palm leaves.

Step 4: This is the most critical step. First use two rice dumpling leaves to form a funnel shape, put the rice in and fill it with chopsticks. Then wrap the top with a piece of rice dumpling leaf, fold it back, and tie it with a brown leaf rope to form a pointed rice brown shape. But be sure to hold the rice dumpling leaves tightly, otherwise the rice will leak out from the tail and the water will pour in. Not only will the rice dumplings have no flavor, but they will not taste tough at all.

Step 5: Boil over slow heat. Cook for about two hours and it's ready to go.

The rice dumplings made in this way are smooth and refreshing, sticky but not greasy, and full of toughness. It tastes like a delicate fragrance and a glutinous rice flavor

Instructions for making alkaline rice dumplings:

Add water to cover the rice dumplings when cooking.