glutinous rice
Glutinous rice, Gramineae annual herbaceous plants, is a sticky variant of rice, in the indica and japonica rice varieties are glutinous rice varieties, glutinous rice shelling in southern China called glutinous rice (Minnan language, Min Dong language, Po fairy language Are called "rice"), while the north is called Jiangmi, is the manufacture of sticky snacks, such as dumplings, eight-treasure porridge, all kinds of dessert main raw materials. "Xijing Miscellanies" contains, the Han Dynasty on September 9 to eat the bait of the vulgar, "September 9, Pei dogwood, eat bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, cute longevity." "Eat beer bait to evil demon." Bait That is, the ancient cake, the raw material is rice noodles, rice flour can be rice or millet flour. Glutinous rice is also the main raw material for brewing fermented glutinous rice (sweet rice wine). In appearance, glutinous rice is opaque white. Glutinous rice and other rice is the main difference is that it contains starch in the starch-based, 95% to 100%, and thus more sticky after cooking. There is a glutinous rice called black glutinous rice or purple rice (but not the kind of non-sticky purple rice), the price is more expensive. The world is to glutinous rice as the main farming country is Laos, the other rice country is less glutinous rice (Japanese people crossing the Ministry of Daddy that there is a glutinous rice planting area in northern Thailand, Laos, Xishuangbanna). Sasaki savor said that the people of glutinous rice also like to eat taro and yam. ...