Beijing 2008

Ai Wo Wo

Introduction:

Ai Wo Wo, or glutinous rice ball, is made of glutinous rice or millet with sweet filling, first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, and were well received by the imperial families in the Ming, Dynasty. Now it is one of Beijing's snacks loved by local people.

Where to try it?

Huguosi Snack Bar

Address: 93#, Huguosi Street, Xicheng District

Tel: +86 10 6618 1705

Beijing Nanlaishun Restaurant

Address: 12#, Nancaiyuan, Xuanwu District, Beijing

Tel: +86 10 63547846

Haiwanju Restaurant (Headquarters)

Address: 11#, Zengguang Road, Haidian District

Tel: +86 10 8837 4993

How to cook it?

Ingredient:

Polished glutinous rice, sesame, sugar, rice flour, haw jelly cake

Preparation:

Soak polished glutinous rice in water for 4 hours or more.

Steam the soaked rice on the steamer and cool it.

Steam the rice flour 15 minutes.

Stir-fry sesame and pound.

Mix the sesame with sugar and beat.

Roll the rice into a bar.

Cut the rice bar in to parts.

Roll the rice ball in the flour and press it thin.

Fill the sesame filing into the rice ball.

Roll the rice ball in the flour again.

Cut haw jelly cake into small pieces and place one on a rice ball.