At the table
Eat warm with fingers or chopsticks, taking small bites through the rice layers and filling. Let the centre cool first. No dip is needed; tea can be ordered separately.
Contains pork and soy sauce, commonly with wheat. Ask which filling is offered: some add pork-skin jelly, salted egg yolk or sweet bean filling. The selected pork-and-bamboo version is not every shop's recipe.
Contains pork and soy sauce, commonly with wheat. Ask which filling is offered: some add pork-skin jelly, salted egg yolk or sweet bean filling. The selected pork-and-bamboo version is not every shop's recipe.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Contains pork and soy sauce, commonly with wheat. Ask which filling is offered: some add pork-skin jelly, salted egg yolk or sweet bean filling. The selected pork-and-bamboo version is not every shop's recipe.
Typical ingredients
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Square steamed rice-flour cakes with a tender, slightly grainy crumb and a savory minced-pork centre. The selected version adds finely chopped winter bamboo shoots. Tea is a companion drink, not an ingredient.
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Square steamed rice-flour cakes with a tender, slightly grainy crumb and a savory minced-pork centre. The selected version adds finely chopped winter bamboo shoots. Tea is a companion drink, not an ingredient.
- How it’s made
- Moisten and sift glutinous-rice and japonica-rice flour. Layer in a mould around pork and cooked bamboo shoots seasoned with dark soy sauce, yellow rice wine, ginger juice, salt and MSG; cut into squares and steam.
Contains pork and soy sauce, commonly with wheat. Ask which filling is offered: some add pork-skin jelly, salted egg yolk or sweet bean filling. The selected pork-and-bamboo version is not every shop's recipe.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Zhejiang.
About this regional connection
Zhejiang: Xinshi town, Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有德清新市茶糕吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
Xinshi pork-filled rice cakes
Xinshi's tea cakes are linked to the water town's tea-drinking and breakfast traditions. Rice flour is sifted around a savory filling before steaming, giving a different texture from kneaded glutinous-rice dumplings. Shops maintain their own fillings.