Street Dimsums in Shanghai-Stuffued Rice-cake

When I asked my roommates who both have lived in Shanghai for a long time, none of them have eaten the stuffed rice cake. I was really confused then because the stuffed rice cake was one of Shanghai's most famous dim sum, too. How can they not know this food since they know all the foods that I wrote about?

I search the net; somebody is saying that the stuffed rice cake is one of the foods that are gradually disappearing. That is true, I guess, because I cannot even find a picture of the stuffed rice cake and I remembered there were really few stalls of the stuffed rice cake in Shanghai now. However, I just can’t imagine that how can such a delicious food disappear?

Have you ever tasted the food “rice cake” in China? It’s soft, made of rice and has a certain shape. The shape depends on the maker. Usually we cut the rice cake to piece to cook in our daily lift and when the Spring Festival comes, we make it in the shape like a big cake, a fish or anything you like. However, the stuffed rice cake is a little different. Because the makers need to use the rice cake to roll the stuffing up, it should be extremely soft, like a kind of eatable play dough. When you buy a stuffed rice cake, you can pick anything you like in the rice cake. Usually, if we want to eat sweet, we will ask for black sesame and sugar; if we want to eat salty, we might ask for Chinese styled twisted cruller, crushed dried pork and/or sausage.

When I go back to Shanghai, I will definitely buy some stuffed rice cakes for my roommates.