GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Yellow-millet and bean-filled cakes are other versions. This representative cake uses rice and jujubes; sugar for dipping is optional.
Typical ingredients
In some versions
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Mild rice fragrance and fruity jujube sweetness.
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Dense, sticky and chewy; firmer when chilled.
- How it’s made
- Cooked glutinous rice and pitted jujubes are layered, pressed and cut.
Yellow-millet and bean-filled cakes are other versions. This representative cake uses rice and jujubes; sugar for dipping is optional.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Beijing.
About this regional connection
Beijing: Beijing cut-served grain cake; selected white glutinous rice and jujube version.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有北京红枣切糕吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
A cake sold by the cut
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
Beijing qiegao is shaped as a larger cake and cut into portions for sale. White glutinous rice and yellow-grain versions belong to this tradition; layered jujubes give this version its fruit flavor.