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Nianbaba

2022-06-02
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Nianbaba (a rice cake) is a folk seasonal snack in Dingcheng District, Changde City. Every year on the day of Winter Solstice, every household in Dingcheng would make the rice cake. There are usually two kinds of Nianbaba. One is made from glutinous rice and sticky rice in a ratio of three to seven or four to six.


Through grinding, steaming, tying and other techniques, the pastry would be made in a shape of the mooncake and printed with the pattern of flowers and it is called flower rice cake. The other is made entirely of glutinous rice. It is very soft, called glutinous rice cake. It can be eaten in different ways. You can fry it with sugar or oil. You can also boil it in sweet wine or enjoy it with various seasonings.