What cakes do you make in Guangdong for the New Year?

Old Guangdong rice cakes Three kinds of rice cakes that Guangzhou people must eat during the New Year.

Fried radish pie

Radish cake is a common snack in Guangdong teahouses, and it is also one of the essential New Year cakes for Cantonese people every year, which means "Gao Sheng".

Radish cake is a steamed cake with sticky rice flour and shredded radish as the main ingredients. Soak glutinous rice, grind, flatten, shred radish and cook, mix the above two raw materials into paste, add shrimp, bacon, lard, pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and refined salt, mix well and steam. Families usually make them during the Spring Festival, while teahouses supply them all the year round. Radish cake is usually fried in a pan for a few minutes, which is sweet and delicious; Bowls of radish cakes can be eaten hot without frying.

New Year cake; rice cake

The so-called "rice cake, rice cake, high every year", Guangzhou people eat rice cake in the New Year, just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. Cantonese rice cakes are white and fat. They are made of glutinous rice, sugar and lard. They are usually sliced and fried or used to put soup. They are soft, chewy and sweet. They are a must-eat food in the New Year. If you don't want to steam rice cakes at home, you can go to some old Guangzhou brands to buy them.

Lingjiao cake

Guangzhou people always keep cakes to entertain guests during the New Year, because "cake" is pronounced the same as "high", so it means "step by step". Among many kinds of cakes, water chestnut cake is steamed with sugar water mixed with horseshoe powder. Water chestnut cake, once the most famous restaurant in Panxi, Guangzhou, is located in Pantang with rich horseshoes.