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[c] At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, people made zong, also called jiao shu, lit. "horned/angled millet") by wrapping sticky rice with the leaves of the Zizania latifolia plant (Chinese: 菰; pinyin: gu, a sort of wild rice [25]) and boiling them in lye (grass-and-wood ash water). [26] The name jiao shu may imply "ox-horn shape", [25] or ...
Short-grain glutinous rice from Japan Long-grain glutinous rice from Thailand Glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast East Asia, the northeastern regions of India and Bhutan which has opaque grains, very low amylose content, and is especially sticky when cooked.
Salvia glutinosa grows to approximately 40–60 centimetres (16–24 in) tall. [1] The stems are erect, with bright green hairy leaves that are about 13 cm (5.1 in) long, with petioles of about 8–10 centimetres (3.1–3.9 in). The leaves are deciduous, toothed, pointed, tomentose and glandular. With the first frosts, foliage disappears and ...
Since ancient times, there has not been yet any research that can explain the word "xôi" in Vietnamese language or at least can find a form of inter-text.However, according to the survey of researcher Trần Quang Đức, [note 3] this term appears in the brain as a manifestation of a dish made from "gạo nếp" (sticky rice) and is almost the only ingredient.
Pusô or tamu, sometimes known in Philippine English as "hanging rice", is a Filipino rice cake made by boiling rice in a woven pouch of palm leaves. It is most commonly found in octahedral , diamond, or rectangular shapes, but it can also come in various other intricately woven complex forms.
Lo mai gai [a] (Chinese: 糯米雞; Jyutping: no6 mai5 gai1; Cantonese Yale: noh mái gāi), literally "glutinous rice chicken", is a classic dim sum dish served during yum cha. [1] The portion size of lo mai gai is generally quite large, so there is a smaller variant created known as jan ju gai ( Chinese : 珍珠雞 ; Jyutping : zan1 zyu1 gai1 ...
Étienne François Aymonier, who visited Laos in 1883, described laab as a favorite dish of Lao people – a mixture of chopped onions or scallions, lemongrass leaves, fermented fish and chili mixed with fresh and boiled fish. The dish was eaten with steam-cooked sticky rice. [11]
Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, [2] is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.