A bite of Hainan

Updated: 2014-09-30 07:20

By Jiang Wanjuan and Bi Nan(chinadaily.com.cn)

Snacks

Use of rice and coconut highlights many of Hainan's snacks. People eat rice noodles for breakfast, for meal, for celebration and also as snack. Sticky rice pair well with coconut in many delightful chewy snacks, for example, yezifan (sticky rice in coconut) and yiba (glutinous coconut rice cake wrapped by banana leaf).

A bite of Hainan

This is not a pomelo cut open, but sweet and fragrant sticky rice in a coconut shell. [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn]