How long does it take to steam the rice cake?

Rice cakes are usually steamed for 5 to 40 minutes.

There are two main situations. One is that if you buy a ready-made rice cake, it is usually cooked and only needs to be steamed in boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes. In another case, the rice cake is made by oneself, so it needs to be steamed for 20 to 40 minutes, and the specific time depends on the size of the rice cake.

Rice cakes, one of the traditional foods in China, belong to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. Rice cakes are cakes made of glutinous rice or rice, boiled into rice, beaten with water or ground into powder, and then pressed. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes.

There are three colors of rice cakes, red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. The rice cake is also called "annual rice cake", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", meaning that the height of children is getting taller every year.