🍽️ Rolling Donkey

Glutinous roll coated with soybean flour, sweet and soft.

Rolling Donkey is a traditional halal sweet popular in Beijing and the Chengde area of Hebei, made from yellow millet or glutinous rice. The steamed dough is rolled flat, spread with red bean paste and rolled up, cut into sections, then rolled in toasted soybean flour, which gives the snack its name. Golden and fragrant, it is soft, chewy and sweet without being cloying, balancing the nutty aroma of roasted soy flour with smooth bean paste. It may be dusted with extra sugar or drizzled with syrup. Often sold at temple fairs and breakfast stalls, Rolling Donkey is a favorite sweet in Chengde during cooler months and ranks alongside pea-flour cake and aiwowo as a classic Beijing-style confection.