Dishes made with glutinous rice
13 dishes from around the world that list glutinous rice as a main ingredient.
SatoVeganสาโท
🇹🇭 ThailandFermented rice drink from northeastern Thailand, often shared from a communal bowl or jar
Drink
MochiVegan餅
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese rice cake made by pounding glutinous rice into a sticky, chewy mass
Sweet or dessert
Zongzi粽子
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSticky rice parcels with sweet or savoury fillings, wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
DaifukuVegan大福餅
🇯🇵 JapanSmall mochi cakes filled with sweet bean paste or other fillings
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
BaijiuVegan白酒
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreClear Chinese spirit distilled from grain, with a range of aroma styles
Drink
LemangVegan
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 3 moreGlutinous rice cooked with coconut milk in bamboo tubes lined with banana leaves
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Mango sticky riceVegan
🇹🇭 Thailand and 5 moreSweet glutinous rice with ripe mango and coconut milk, served as a dessert
Sweet or dessert
Huangjiu黄酒
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreChinese rice wine brewed from grains and aged for depth of flavor
Drink
BotamochiVeganぼたもち or 牡丹餅
🇯🇵 JapanSweet rice balls covered with red bean paste, eaten during spring and autumn in Japan
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
SamgyetangMeat삼계탕
🇰🇷 South KoreaWhole young chicken stuffed with rice and ginseng, simmered as a hot soup
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
SongpyeonVegan송편
🇰🇷 South Korea and 1 moreHalf-moon shaped Korean rice cakes with sweet or nutty fillings, steamed on pine needles
Sweet or dessert
BibingkaVegetarian
🇵🇭 Philippines and 1 moreBaked rice cake cooked in banana leaves, often enjoyed warm at Christmas
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Bánh chưngMeat
🇻🇳 VietnamSquare parcels of sticky rice, mung bean and pork wrapped in green leaves
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bibingka: Sabilal Rusadi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Huangjiu: udono, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mochi: Kropsoq, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zongzi: The original uploader was Allentchang at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Daifuku: No machine-readable author provided. Lyzzy assumed (based on copyright, CC BY 2.5, source
- Baijiu: Badagnani, CC BY 3.0, source
- Lemang: Ezagren ( bicara / talk ), Attribution, source
- Botamochi: Tomomarusan, CC BY 2.5, source
- Sato: Pawyi Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bánh chưng: vi:user:Viethavvh, Public domain, source
- Mango sticky rice: Dennis Wong, CC BY 2.0, source
- Samgyetang: wizdata, CC0, source
- Songpyeon: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service, CC BY-SA 2.0, source