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Cifangao
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Galaxyharrylion
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cifangao in shanghai
By
Galaxyharrylion
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Cropped and resized

粢饭糕

粢飯糕
cífàngāo
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 fried sticky rice cake

About the dish

本帮菜 Shanghai · 小吃 Snack

A flat block of pressed glutinous and long-grain rice, salted and deep-fried until golden and crunchy outside and soft inside. A Shanghai breakfast item, often sold next to fried dough sticks.

Examples

HSK 7-9
Cífàngāo shì bǎ nuòmǐfàn yāchéng kuài zài yóuzhá de.
Fried sticky rice cakes are cooked glutinous rice pressed into blocks and then deep-fried.
HSK 7-9
Zài Shànghǎi de zǎodiǎn tān shàng, cífàngāo cháng hé yóutiáo yìqǐ mài.
At Shanghai breakfast stalls, fried sticky rice cakes are often sold alongside youtiao.

Tips

usage
粢 is read cí in this word and in 粢饭, cooked glutinous rice. Its other reading, zī, is for millet and grain offered in sacrifice.

Stroke Order

粢 zī
饭 fàn
糕 gāo