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Origin
Guangxi Province — Zhuang and other minority traditions
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Description
Zi mi ba (紫米粑) — black glutinous rice cake — is a Guangxi minority festival food using black glutinous rice (zi mi), which contains anthocyanins giving it a dramatic deep purple-black colour. The rice is soaked, steamed with pandan leaf, then pounded and shaped into cakes or wrapped in leaves. A common offering during harvest festivals and ancestor veneration ceremonies.
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The Thread
—Thai black rice pudding — same grain tradition
—Filipino puto bumbong — purple rice cake
—Malay pulut hitam — black glutinous rice dessert
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Flavour Context
Slightly sweet, nutty black glutinous rice; pandan aromatic; mildly chewy; earthy from anthocyanins; a wholesome, natural sweetness
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