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Mugwort Rice Cakes (艾粄) — dish photograph
Guangdong

Mugwort Rice Cakes 艾粄

Mugwort Rice Cakes (艾粄) are steamed cakes of glutinous rice flour coloured and flavoured with young mugwort leaves, eaten in Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong, around the Qingming (清明) festival.

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AI illustration: A bowl of smooth white cooked fish balls with a few pale fishcake slices in clear broth.
Guangdong

Danshui Crispy Pork Meatballs 淡水酥丸

Danshui Crispy Pork Meatballs (淡水酥丸) are balls of pork beaten to a paste with iron bars and fried in peanut oil until golden, from the Danshui (淡水) area of Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong.

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AI illustration: A wooden tray of pale steamed glutinous rice cakes cut into tidy soft blocks.
Guangdong

Dabu Bamboo Shoot Dumplings 大埔笋粄

Dabu Bamboo Shoot Dumplings (大埔笋粄) are half-moon Hakka dumplings from Dabu County (大埔县) in Meizhou (梅州), Guangdong. A starch-based wrapper holds a filling of chopped bamboo shoot and pork.

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Weijiao Steamed Rice Cakes (味酵粄) — dish photograph
Guangdong

Weijiao Steamed Rice Cakes 味酵粄

Weijiao Steamed Rice Cakes (味酵粄) are a traditional Hakka (客家) snack of Meizhou (梅州), Guangdong: small bowls of rice batter mixed with alkaline water and steamed until the edges puff up and the centre sinks into a hollow.

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Fengshun Rice-Sheet Rolls (丰顺捆粄) — dish photograph
Guangdong

Fengshun Rice-Sheet Rolls 丰顺捆粄

Fengshun Rice-Sheet Rolls (丰顺捆粄) are thin sheets of steamed rice batter rolled around a savoury filling, and a Meizhou Daily report names them the representative breakfast of Fengshun County (丰顺县) in Meizhou (梅州), Guangdong.

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AI illustration: A wooden tray of pale steamed glutinous rice cakes cut into tidy soft blocks.
Guangdong

Pingyuan Yellow Rice Cake 平远黄粄

Pingyuan Yellow Rice Cake (平远黄粄) is the huangban (黄粄) of Pingyuan County (平远县) in Meizhou (梅州), a Hakka (客家) cake of steamed rice turned yellow with plant-ash lye and pounded in a stone mortar.

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AI illustration: A plate of rolled thin wheat wrappers cut diagonally.
Guangdong

Paper-Thin Crepe Rolls 薄饼

Paper-Thin Crepe Rolls (薄饼) are the Qingming (清明) festival snack of Hailufeng (海陆丰), the Shanwei (汕尾) area of Guangdong: wheat-flour wrappers as thin as paper, rolled around a stir-fried savoury filling or a sweet one.

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AI illustration: A wooden tray of pale steamed glutinous rice cakes cut into tidy soft blocks.
Guangdong

Layered Steamed Rice Cake 层糕粿

Layered Steamed Rice Cake (层糕粿) is a rice-batter cake from Shanwei (汕尾), steamed one thin layer at a time in a copper tray until it holds more than ten layers.

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