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Radish Rice-Flour Dumplings 萝卜粄
Radish Rice-Flour Dumplings (萝卜粄) are a classic snack of Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong: a wrapper shaped like a jiaozi dumpling but larger, filled with shredded radish and salty, savoury extras.
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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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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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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
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
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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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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Shanwei Vegetable Rice Dumplings 汕尾菜粿
Shanwei Vegetable Rice Dumplings (汕尾菜粿) are steamed dumplings with a thin rice-flour skin and a filling of seasonal vegetables, meat and dried seafood, made across Shanwei (汕尾) in eastern Guangdong.
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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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Pounded Beef Patties 牛肉饼
Pounded Beef Patties (牛肉饼) are flat discs of hand-beaten beef from Shanwei (汕尾), Guangdong, and are counted as the most representative snack of the Haifeng (海丰) area there.
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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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Longchuan Chewy Glutinous Rice Cake 龙川牛筋糕
Longchuan Chewy Glutinous Rice Cake (龙川牛筋糕) is a sweet, chewy cake of glutinous rice flour and sugars from Longchuan County (龙川县) in Heyuan (河源), Guangdong.
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