Where can I buy traditional rice cakes near Jinan?

Both southern and northern cities like to eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival. Generally, rice cakes are made of rice or glutinous rice. Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival has become a custom. Have you ever eaten rice cakes made of yellow flour? This snack called Huangmianwowo is very popular in northern China, and it is called rice cake here in Jinan. It seems that people in Jinan don't eat during the New Year.

In the past, people began to steam yellow noodles on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and put peanuts, walnuts and chestnuts. Inside, it is wrapped in big red dates, and you will have an appetite when you look at the yellow and red ones. The entrance is smooth and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It's really soft, sticky, sweet and healthy.

Nowadays, fewer and fewer people make yellow-faced nests at home, and the taste of childhood has gradually disappeared. However, we found a small shop specializing in yellow noodle nests in a vegetable market in Jinan. Their home is still an old-fashioned one, which is very memorable. This shop is located in Licheng District, with a simple environment and a small place. This is a dirty little facade. Mainly selling millet tea soup and yellow noodles Wo Wo. It only sells for half a year every year, but the business is booming, especially the yellow-faced Wo Wo, which can sell for 6,543,800 yuan in the Chinese New Year, shows the degree of Shandong people's love for this snack.

This is a family-run shop. The boss's father started by selling yellow noodles, and now he gives them to his son, and the taste is still the same. The shelf outside the house is full of steamed yellow noodles, which looks spectacular. They have been here for more than ten years and have many regular customers. Some people buy dozens of them, eat them in a week, and then continue to sweep the goods.

The key to their good taste is that the boss is very strict with quality. Every year, he uses new rice, goes to the countryside to collect fresh yellow rice planted by farmers, selects the best golden jujube, and strictly controls the raw materials to make it taste good. It used to be handmade, and I couldn't do much in one day. Now it has been changed into a machine, and the sanitary output has also increased.

Their yellow-faced nests are very real. They are all made by hand, and the noodles are scalded with boiling water to make the nest sticky enough. Chop up the red dates, take out the stone, and mix the broken dates with the yellow noodles evenly, so that there are sweet broken dates in each nest, which makes the taste better. The mixed flour began to knead into the shape of a nest, with two big red dates on it and mistletoe leaves on the bottom of the steamer. The first is non-stick pan, and the second is unique fragrance, which makes the yellow noodle nest more delicious.

The cooked yellow noodle nest can be eaten after being steamed in the pot. It tastes soft and waxy when it is hot, or it can be eaten cold. It is harder and less sticky when it is cold, but it is chewy. The more you eat, the more fragrant you get. Slices can be fried or fried. It can be eaten in many ways and tastes different. Although there are no additives, the shelf life after freezing is also very long, and it can be preserved for six months, so it can still be eaten in winter and summer.

This shop only sells for five months in winter, not because it is too capricious, but because it is too hot to do it. Two generations have worked hard and gained a lot. There are so many customers who come to buy it every day that sometimes they are anxious to fight. I really admire the grumpiness of Shandong people!