How to Make Canton Rice Cake

Radish Cake Radish cake is a kind of snack commonly found in Cantonese teahouses, and it is also one of the must-have New Year's cakes for Cantonese people, which means "high rise".

The turnip cake is a steamed cake with sticky rice flour and shredded turnip as the main ingredients. Sticky rice soaked and flattened, radish shaved and boiled, the above two ingredients mixed into a paste, add shrimp, bacon, lard, pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, fine salt and so on, mixing and steaming. Families mostly make it in the Spring Festival, while teahouses serve it all year round. Turnip cake is usually fried in a pan with oil for a few minutes, it is sweet and delicious; while the bowl of turnip cake can be eaten hot, without frying.

New Year's Cake As the saying goes, "New Year's Cake, New Year's Cake, New Year's High," the people of Guangzhou eat New Year's Cake on New Year's Eve, just like they eat rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival. Canton style rice cake and white and fat, with glutinous rice, sugar, lard production and become, usually sliced and fried or used to put soup, soft and chewy in the mouth, the flavor of sweet rice aroma rich, is the New Year's Eve must eat a gourmet food.

Horseshoe Cake Guangzhou people also often prepare pastries to entertain guests on New Year's Day, because the pronunciation of "cake" is the same as that of "high", which means "rising step by step". Among the many kinds of cakes, the horseshoe cake, which is steamed with sugar and water mixed with horseshoe powder.