The Hainan rice dumplings are generally plump in body and rich in content. A rice dumpling contains many elements of Hainan cuisine - chicken, pork, duck eggs, shrimp, or fish, squid and so on. Danzhou rice dumpling has many varieties, such as saltwater rice dumpling, redfish rice dumpling, dog meat rice dumpling, and red rice rice dumpling, among which Luoji rice dumplings is the best known. The general characteristics are soft, permeable, fine rice, plentiful filling, and delicious taste.
The Danzhou rice dumpling stuffing is usually made with streaky pork, pig’s feet, lean pork, and shrimp, and mixed with seasonings of white soy sauce, aged wine, minced garlic, gourmet powder and refined salt, and the prepared mixtures are placed into the glutinous rice and wrapped into a triangle with rice dumpling leaf, and placed into the pot and cooked for more than 10 hours. Every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, the Danzhou people working outside will bring their native rice dumplings as gifts to friends.
Food Tips:The rice dumpling is a featured snacks of Danzhou, and can be bought in the hotel, breakfast store and nearby the vegetable market, generally more plentiful in morning or evening; also commercially available from the zone of frozen food in major supermarkets.