What does dada mean?

Baba is a dialect that refers to cake food. It is one of the most famous snacks in Jiangxi and Kunming. It is also one of the common traditional foods in Dali and Pingxiang areas. It has many preparation methods and different flavors. Strange, very delicious.

Yunnan’s tubular and roll-shaped cakes are “New Year’s goods”. Yunnan people cannot celebrate the New Year without Baba. It is an ancient folk custom to make, eat and send bait to each other during the Spring Festival. Baba is the best in Guandu, Kunming, especially the stuffed cakes pounded by people in Guanduzijian. Made with pure and clean Baoxiang River water and plump and shiny Guandu rice, the cake is white and delicate, with good bones and muscles, soft and waxy.

Kunming people’s favorite sauce for daddy is sesame peanut sauce, which is sweet and delicious. There are also sesame and peanut butter, as well as sweet sauce, hot sauce, and even Yunnan bean curd is also made into dada sauce. There are also sweet sauce, hot sauce, and even Yunnan tofu is also made into dada sauce. From "fried chicken shreds and bait shreds" to braised bait cubes, the "Duan Shi Street Braised Bait Cubes" is the most famous, bright and rosy, fragrant, oily but not greasy.

Extended information:

In addition, a kind of food in Lianghu, Guangxi and other places is also called baba, which refers to a cake or cake made of mashed glutinous rice or other grains. Food in lump form. Due to the wide variety of raw materials and cooking methods, each region has its own characteristics. According to different raw materials, there are glutinous rice, wheat, corn, etc.

According to the production method, there are steaming, frying, boiling, baking, etc. There are even special practices in different seasons such as Qingming, March 3rd, and Spring Festival. The more famous ones include leaf cake, glutinous rice cake, tung leaf cake, oil cake, corn cake, etc.

Some southern ethnic minorities, such as the Miao, Naxi, and Tujia people, also call this type of food baba.

In Tujia families, almost every household knows how to fry fried daddy. The process of frying fried daddy is relatively simple and is very suitable for Tujia people's taste. Moreover, the fried daddy is round in shape, symbolizing "perfection" and golden in color, symbolizing "wealth". Therefore, fried daddy is the most popular gift for Tujia people to worship gods and friends during festivals. One of the most popular foods, it is also the most common snack with ethnic characteristics in various markets in urban and rural areas.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Baba (Kunming’s famous snack)