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Jin deui is a type of fried Chinese pastry
Chinese bakery

Chinese bakeries in big cities like Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and across the world in Chinatowns, serve traditional Chinese goods such as mooncakes, sun cakes, and Sweet heart cakes....
 made from glutinous rice
Glutinous rice

Glutinous rice is a type of short-grained Asian rice that is especially sticky when cooked. It is called glutinous in the sense of being glue-like or sticky and not in the sense of containing gluten; on the other hand, it is called sticky but should not be confused with the other varieties of Asian rice that become sticky to one deg...
 flour and commonly found in the Far East
Far East

The Far East is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia....
. The pastry is coated with sesame
Sesame

Sesame is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalization in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods....
 seeds on the outside and is crisp and quite chewy. Inside of the pastry is a large hollow, caused by the expansion of the dough,which is partially filled with a filling usually consisting of lotus paste
Lotus seed paste

Lotus seed paste is a China dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds....
. Alternatively black bean paste
Black bean paste

Black bean paste, commonly called d?u sha or hei d?u sha , is a sweet bean paste often used as a filling in cakes such as mooncakes or doushabao in many Chinese cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine cuisines....
, called dousha may be used, and less commonly red bean paste
Red bean paste

Red bean paste or Azuki bean paste is a sweet, dark red bean paste originating from China. It is used in Chinese cuisine, wagashi, and Korean cuisine....
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Depending on the region and Chinese cultures, jin deui is known as matuan in northern China, ma yuan in northeast China, and jen dai in Hainan
Hainan

Hainan is the smallest Provinces of China of the People's Republic of China. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name....
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Jin deui is a type of fried Chinese pastry
Chinese bakery

Chinese bakeries in big cities like Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and across the world in Chinatowns, serve traditional Chinese goods such as mooncakes, sun cakes, and Sweet heart cakes....
 made from glutinous rice
Glutinous rice

Glutinous rice is a type of short-grained Asian rice that is especially sticky when cooked. It is called glutinous in the sense of being glue-like or sticky and not in the sense of containing gluten; on the other hand, it is called sticky but should not be confused with the other varieties of Asian rice that become sticky to one deg...
 flour and commonly found in the Far East
Far East

The Far East is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia....
. The pastry is coated with sesame
Sesame

Sesame is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. Numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in India. It is widely naturalization in tropical regions around the world and is cultivated for its edible seeds, which grow in pods....
 seeds on the outside and is crisp and quite chewy. Inside of the pastry is a large hollow, caused by the expansion of the dough,which is partially filled with a filling usually consisting of lotus paste
Lotus seed paste

Lotus seed paste is a China dessert ingredient made from dried lotus seeds....
. Alternatively black bean paste
Black bean paste

Black bean paste, commonly called d?u sha or hei d?u sha , is a sweet bean paste often used as a filling in cakes such as mooncakes or doushabao in many Chinese cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine cuisines....
, called dousha may be used, and less commonly red bean paste
Red bean paste

Red bean paste or Azuki bean paste is a sweet, dark red bean paste originating from China. It is used in Chinese cuisine, wagashi, and Korean cuisine....
.

Depending on the region and Chinese cultures, jin deui is known as matuan in northern China, ma yuan in northeast China, and jen dai in Hainan
Hainan

Hainan is the smallest Provinces of China of the People's Republic of China. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name....
. In American restaurants it is known as Sesame Rice Ball.

Origin

The origins of jin deui can be traced back to the Tang dynasty
Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
 as a palace food in Changan, known as ludeui. This food item was also recalled in a poem by the Tang poet Wang Fanzhi
Wang Fanzhi

Wang Fanzhi, or Brahmacarin Wang was a Chinese Buddhist poet born in Hebi during the Tang Dynasty. He is the putative author of two collections of early Tang vernacular poetry....
. With the southward migration of many peoples from central China, the jin deui was brought along and hence became part of southern Chinese cuisine.

Regional


Chinese

In Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, it is one of the most standard pastries. It can also be found in most Chinatown
Chinatown

A Chinatown is a section of an urban area with a large number of overseas Chinese residents, usually outside of Greater China. Chinatowns are present throughout the world, including those in East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe....
 bakery shops overseas.

Vietnam

In Vietnam
Cuisine of Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine is known for its common use of fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables. Vietnamese recipes use a diverse range of herbs, including Cymbopogon, mint, Vietnamese mint, Eryngium foetidum and Thai basil leaves....
, two very similar dishes are called bánh cam (from southern Vietnam) and bánh rán
Bánh rán

B?nh r?n is a Deep-frying glutinous rice ball from northern Vietnamese cuisine. In Vietnamese language, b?nh means "cake" and r?n means "fried."...
 (from northern Vietnam), both of which have a somewhat drier filling that is made from sweetened mung bean paste
Mung bean

||-||}Mung bean, also known as green bean, mung, moong, mash bean, munggo or monggo, green gram, golden gram, and green soy, is the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to India and Pakistan....
. Bánh rán is scented with jasmine
Jasmine

Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family ,with about 200 species, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World....
 flower essence (called mali in Thai
Thai language

Thai , is the national language and official language language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group....
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Philippines

In the Philippines, jin deui is called "butsi".