Every city has its own rice cake, because people like the slimy and sweet taste.
1 Xi'an dumpling cake
Let's talk about Xi'an dumpling cake first——
Don't make a typo, follow the language class representative to read it first: Koshiki, Zèng-zèng-zèng! Guanzhong people can't pronounce this word clearly, and they have to read it as jìng-jìng-jìng! Forget it, then jìng cake, jìng cake, jìng cake...
Koshiki is a kind of steamer that is very old in the Guanzhong region. I have not seen it, and it is said that There are very old pottery koshiks on display in Shaanxi Bo. What I saw was a child-sized sink-sized pan covered with a thick quilt for insulation. In the winter when the water is dripping into ice, the fog will steam as soon as it is lifted. The boss took a flat shovel and shouted in the Guanzhong dialect: "Do you want beans?" Beans refer to large kidney beans, eaten in the mouth, some people do not like, do not want; sweet dates will be wanted, and soft tendons, crystal white glutinous rice together, that is a perfect match.
Koshiki, that was my favorite when I was a kid! A bowl of sour and spicy tofu brain, 5 cents; a bowl of sweet glutinous cake, 5 cents. A mouthful of salty and a mouthful of sweetness, so happy, full of energy for a day! To this day, I still remember the long shout in Wutong Alley: "甑 jìng-cake-"
2 Xiong An cut cake
"Oh, the period—"
I am often awakened by such shouting in Rongcheng County, Xiong'an New District——
"Mom, what are they shouting?" The daughter asked.
"I don't know."
Finally see the real body, is the winter of the Jizhong Plain, the cold wind whistles, an old grandfather in the street light a warm lamp to sell "cut cakes", the grandfather's thick Hebei accent from the loudspeaker out of the loudspeaker becomes "period Oh - period Oh -"
This kind of shouting and selling is conventional, just like the "buzzing-" sound of selling cooked pear cakes in Tianjin, people will understand it as soon as they hear it, but they just bully us outsiders with a blindfold.
The cut cake has the size of a pot mouth, and it is also insulated with a thick quilt, but it is on the stainless steel board, and the rice of the Xi'an Cake cake is one grain at a time, and the cut cake is twisted into a whole piece like tofu, and the rice grains cannot be seen.
Grandpa told me that Rongcheng cut cake is to grind wet rice and yellow rice on a stone mill into powder, and steam it out as a whole piece.
So buy a piece to taste, sweet and chewy, is slightly cool, you can't bite at all.
3 Tianjin rice cakes
Tianjin's "rice cakes" are sold in bean rooms or tofu rooms.
On a large aluminum plate are cut cakes the size of large square lunch boxes, with bean paste cut cakes and red date cut cakes. After dipping the master's knife in the water, he asked me, "Can you see such a piece?" "After cutting it, sprinkle it with a spoonful of sugar.
The rice of Tianjin cut cake should be steamed three times, sweet and sticky for digestion, which is a delicate and reduced version of Xi'an koshi cake.
Every city has its own sweet sticky cake, what does your sticky cake look like?
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