These leaves on the roadside can be used to make rice dumplings, did you know?

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It’s the Dragon Boat Festival~it’s time to eat rice dumplings~the supermarket here in Huahua has started selling rice dumplings! All kinds of bamboo leaf rice dumplings, reed rice dumplings, etc., there are so many varieties! Today Huahua has collected rice dumplings from all over the world. Come and see what kind of leaves they are wrapped in!

Ruo Bamboo Leaves

Food by most compatriots in the South They should be made of bamboo leaves. The leaves are wide, soft and tough, and the wrapped rice dumplings will have a hint of bamboo fragrance~

The bamboo leaves used to make the rice dumplings

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Wrapped in bamboo leaves Zongzi

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Reed leaves< /p>

Bamboo doesn't grow very well in the north, but the leaves don't grow that much. So, what are the rice dumplings in the north made of? That’s the reed leaf!

Reed leaves for making rice dumplings

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(Author: Sui Suiyu Source: Sina Blog)

Zongzi wrapped in reed leaves

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(Author: Sui Suiyu Source: Sina Blog)

Oak leaves

Zongzi wrapped with oak leaves are Huahua The most popular type of rice dumplings~ But most of these rice dumplings are distributed in the southeastern Shandong area~ Most of the rice dumplings wrapped in oak leaves are rectangular, but the rice dumplings in Huahua are pyramid-shaped, but the bottom is rectangular. That kind of thing (unfortunately no picture found).

Quake leaves for making rice dumplings

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(Author: bulekiller   Source: Baidu Knows)

Zongzi wrapped in oak leaves

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(Author: Qingfeng)

Corn leaves

Corn leaves are also very wide, suitable for making rice dumplings, but the flowers are suitable for everyone. It's not the leaves, but the outer skin of the corn cob!

Corn husks for making rice dumplings

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Zongzi wrapped in corn husks

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(Author: jerrysh44  Source: Food Library)

Pandus leaves

Pandanus is a tropical tree species. Flower lovers in Guangdong and Hainan may have eaten this kind of rice dumplings~ Moreover, they are wrapped in pandanus Zongzi, as thick as an arm... If you don’t believe me, look at the picture!

(Author: Chu Miyagi Source: Baidu Knows )

把叶

Zhaoqing, Guangdong Hiiragi leaves are used to wrap steamed rice dumplings. Although it is a plant of the Alocasia family, it is not poisonous~

Zongzi wrapped in tangerine leaves

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Bamboo shoot skin

In addition to bamboo leaves, bamboo shoots and bamboo tubes can be used to make rice dumplings~ As for rice dumplings made of bamboo tubes, they may be inconvenient to eat and the skin is too hard. Got it!

Zongzi made of bamboo shoot skin

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Lotus leaf

Lotus leaf It is often used to wrap things, and rice dumplings are certainly no exception~ And using lotus leaves to wrap rice dumplings will give you a very pleasant fragrance!

Zongzi wrapped in lotus leaves - glutinous rice chicken with lotus leaves~

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(Author: ScarlettChu  Source: Douguo Food)

Coconut leaves

Huahua has never seen rice dumplings wrapped with coconut leaves. It should be made in Hainan. The wrapping looks like the picture below!

Coconut leaves look like this

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Zongzi wrapped in coconut leaves

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Banana leaves

Banana leaves are very big. How big are they? A person standing behind a banana leaf can block half of these. In Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan and other places, there are many areas where banana leaves are used to make rice dumplings. The country that uses banana leaves the most to make rice dumplings is actually Vietnam.

How about it? Are you excited about zongzi?

If you have other ways to make rice dumplings,

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Or you can also post pictures in conversation mode~< /p>

Finally, I wish all flower lovers a happy Dragon Boat Festival~

Happy holidays!

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