×Steamed Rice Cake (Jing Gao)

Why you must eat itGlutinous rice flour is packed into a tiny wooden mold and steamed for a few minutes over rising steam. Round and white as a mirror, hence the name. Steamed through, it is lifted out on a bamboo stick and dusted with osmanthus honey, brown sugar, crushed sesame, and peanut. Chewy, soft, faintly sweet. Softest while hot, it suits eating one at a time on the walk. The white steam off the cart marks the street corner.