Nuomici

Description

Nuomici is a ball-shaped pastry made with glutinous rice flour. Most commonly, it is rolled in desiccated coconut. Its interior is often filled with ingredients such as sugar, peanuts, azuki bean paste, and black sesame seed paste. The dessert is quite popular in China (especially in the Guangdong province) and Hong Kong. Nuomici is very similar to the Japanese mochi, but the dough in nuomici is steamed instead of boiled, resulting in a texture that is much softer than mochi's. This sweet treat can be found in numerous bakeries throughout Hong Kong, due to it being one of the most popular pastry varieties.