The origin of rice rolls
Rice rolls has a long history. It is said that it originated in Longzhou (now luoding city, Guangdong) in the Tang Dynasty, and evolved from a local traditional food, which is greasy and delicious. Locals call it the "dragon niche". Rice rolls's name is well known. During the Qianlong period, Emperor Qianlong toured Jiangnan, listened to the kind words of Ji Xiaolan, the minister of restaurants, and went to Luoding to eat dragon niches.
When eating this "cold, tender and slippery" dragon niche, Qianlong was full of praise and said on impulse: this is not a snack, it is a bit like pig intestines. Let's call it rice rolls. Rice rolls got its name and spread in Guangdong. In the late Qing Dynasty, rice rolls's hawking sounded on the streets of Guangzhou.