The stirred dough[1] (simplified Chinese: 搅团; traditional Chinese: 攪團), known as jiaotuan in Chinese, also translated as stirred paste,[2] sticky corn-flour jelly,[3] is a snack from Northwest China,[4] defined as a kind of "paste made of flour".[5]

Stirred dough
Simplified搅团
Traditional攪團
Also translated asstirred paste
sticky corn-flour jelly

The origin of the stirred dough cannot be verified, although its inventions has been traditionally attributed to Zhuge Liang from the Three Kingdoms period.[6] At that time, the name was not yet called "stirred dough", but was figuratively called "water surrounding the city".[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Stirred dough (搅团/Jiaotuan)". China Daily. Feb 14, 2019.
  2. ^ "Try a 'jiaotuan' – a unique snack from NW China's Shaanxi". The Global Herald. April 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "Jiaotuan (sticky corn-flour jelly)". en.shaanxi.gov.cn. 2018-10-23.
  4. ^ "Stirred dough". nnw.yanan.gov.cn. 2019-11-19.
  5. ^ "Telling you about the Xi'an food you didn't know". China Daily. 2014-05-12.
  6. ^ "Missing the stirred dough". Xiamen Daily. 2020-12-14.
  7. ^ Zhang Jun (2021-09-06). "stirred dough". Xi'an Daily.