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Cifantuan (sticky rice breakfast roll) is a signature dish of China; we have verified places to eat it in Shanghai. Start with where to eat Cifantuan (sticky rice breakfast roll) in Shanghai.
Cifantuan is a Shanghai breakfast staple, a warm glutinous rice roll wrapped by hand around a stick of hot youtiao, sometimes with sugar, pickles or pork floss tucked inside, eaten on the walk to work.
Cifantuan is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of a Shanghai breakfast, alongside dabing, youtiao and doujiang soy milk. It grew out of the same street stall culture that produced the city's earliest dabing and youtiao shop, recorded as opening in 1912. By the 1930s the city had a thriving breakfast trade built on dabing, youtiao and mantou, and over time the four settled into the standard set sold from street stalls and small neighbourhood eateries. The rice roll was built for the walk to work: soft, filling and compact enough to eat with one hand, wrapped around a stick of youtiao for crunch and folded with sugar, pickles or pork floss depending on the stall.
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