Where is the special snack of Bowl Ear Cake?

Bowl ear cake is also called "doll cake". Shaped like a small tea bowl. Because it is made of "bowl of ear candy", it is very popular with children. Bowl ear cake has a history of 100 years. It is a traditional famous food in Guiyang. It is golden yellow (also white), elastic, large, soft, fragrant, sweet and slightly fermented with sweet wine. Very delicious. The production method is to soak rice, wash it, grind it into pulp, filter it, then ferment it, add some cooked glutinous rice, liquefy it in a red pool, filter it, add alkali, stir it evenly, and steam it into a mature cake. There are many restaurants in Guiyang that make bowls of ear cakes, among which Four Seasons Spring Restaurant is the most popular.

Guiyang Bowl Ear Cake appeared in Qing Dynasty and flourished in 1980s. At that time, there were many business households in Guiyang, among which No.83 store in Nanjing Street (now Zhonghua North Road) was the most famous. The masses called it "Nanjing Street Bowl Ear Cake", so a two-part allegorical saying "Nanjing Street Bowl Ear Cake-Steamed Big" became popular. Its glutinous rice is soft and sweet, which is very suitable for children and the elderly. Because its price is close to the people, it has become a favorite snack of Guiyang people. 1984, which was rated as a famous snack in Guiyang.

Bowl ear cakes in Guiyang, from hand grinding to electric grinding, have already been mass-produced. In addition to maintaining the traditional flavor varieties, there are also products made of white sugar, sorghum, purple or black-gray buckwheat, which have different flavors and varieties. This can be seen in Guiyang's large and small restaurants and the morning tea night market of food stalls.