Where is Common Sticky Pork Dumplings from?

Sticky millet is one of Tangxi's specialties and most famous dishes. When steamed, the glutinous rice grains stand up and the meat juice is firmly enclosed in the sticky rice ball, making it very juicy, with not only the glutinous rice on the outside, but also in the meat, which makes it very elastic and tasty.

It is said that common millet meatballs have a connection with Emperor Qianlong. When Emperor Qianlong traveled to Jiangnan, he was so enamored with the scenery in Tangxi that he ordered the construction of a palace in Xihengtou, Tangxi, where he stayed for ten days and a half months. A chef surnamed wang for the qianlong emperor to do dishes, wrongly do lion's head meat rounds fell to a bucket of wet glutinous rice inside, the chef at his wits' end, simply will be wrong, all meat rounds all put into the glutinous rice rolled a little bit, and then on the pot to steam, this time a new kind of meat rounds was born, the qianlong emperor ate even said good, and busy asked what this dish is called? The chef thought that the sticky rice sticking to the meatballs stood up like spiky hairs, so he simply said "spiky meatballs". This is how common millet dumplings have been passed down.