Guiding Sesame Cake

Guiding Sesame Cake

　　Guiding Sesame Cake

　　The sesame cakes in Guiding are delicious, filled with minced meat and spicy sausage. The well-risen dough is kneaded into a stick-like shape, then cut into small sections. These sections are rolled out into thin layers, brushed with vegetable oil, scallions, and salt, then rolled up, stood upright, and pressed firmly. After a few more rolls with a rolling pin, a round sesame cake takes shape. Repeating the same motions, over ten cakes are made in no time. Next, a brush is dipped into a brown liquid and each cake is brushed, then sprinkled with sesame seeds before being individually placed on the right hand and pressed onto the inside wall of the oven. A few minutes later, the shopkeeper uses a long pair of tongs to pull out the golden, fragrant cakes one by one. Customers can hardly wait—they toss money onto the oven, grab a cake, take a big bite with a “crunch,” without even waiting for it to cool.