Small steamed cakes of glutinous rice dough shaped like piglets, each on a leaf, filled with minced pork and preserved greens or with something sweet such as red bean. Soft and chewy.
Piglet rice cakes are shaped like little pigs and sit on a leaf.
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In Sichuan dialect 猪儿 means piglet, with 儿 a full syllable, and 粑 is a soft cake of rice or other grain. The name describes the shape: the sweet ones have no pork in them.
