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What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
The classic cake uses prepared pork fat, sugar and osmanthus. One version also uses yellow rice wine and jujube.
Typical ingredients
In some versions
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Sweet with a mild saltiness from cured pork fat, finished with fragrant osmanthus.
- Chili heat
- Heat not recorded
- Texture
- Soft, sticky and springy steamed glutinous-rice crumb; firmer and chewier as it cools.
- How it’s made
- Grind glutinous rice into fine flour, mix with prepared pork-fat pieces, sugar and osmanthus, steam in a mould, then cut into squares.
The classic cake uses prepared pork fat, sugar and osmanthus. One version also uses yellow rice wine and jujube.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Explore regional food
Associated with Zhejiang.
About this regional connection
Zhejiang: Associated with Wenzhou Lucheng district; brand/family lineage Airen, not exclusive provincial monopoly.
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