Poyang Rice Dumplings 鄱阳米饺
Poyang Rice Dumplings is featured among the local specialties of Jiangxi.
Poyang Rice Dumplings (鄱阳米饺) are steamed dumplings with a wrapper made from rice, a snack of Poyang County (鄱阳县) in Shangrao (上饶), Jiangxi. Shangrao Daily calls them a taste etched in local memory, found in the steamers of breakfast shops in the morning and on family tables at festivals.
How it is made
The wrapper starts from early-season rice grown locally. Shangrao Daily sums up the traditional method, said to be a century old, in five steps: soak the rice, grind it, scald the flour, wrap the filling and steam. The wrappers are shaped entirely by hand.
Ingredients
In the version from Tianfanjie (田畈街), one of the 'Ten Famous Snacks of Poyang' announced in 2022, the dumplings are made with good Poyang Lake rice flour and filled with Chinese chives, dried tofu (豆干) and lean pork.
Flavour and texture
Once steamed, the wrapper glistens. It is fine-textured, soft without being sticky and springy to the bite, neither too soft nor too firm, and it carries the taste of rice alongside the savoury filling.
Where it comes from
The 2022 list came out of the first Xunwei Raozhou (寻味饶州, 'Tasting Raozhou') tourism food contest, run by the Poyang County Party publicity department, in which Tianfanjie rice dumplings were among the ten famous snacks chosen from 20 candidates. In November 2025 rice dumplings from the Poyang maker Qiaqia Yanxi (恰恰宴禧), together with Poyang jiushui fa ba (酒水发粑, rice-wine leavened cakes), were given the title 'China Ecological Food Landmark Brand Product'.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.