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Leaf Wrapped Cake Filled With Pork // Chengdu: City of Gastronomy 25

1,882 views · Published 8 February 2018 · 7:50 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Itchy Feet · 2018 · Travel & Events

Leaf cake, or ye er ba, is a glutinous rice bread that’s cooked in a leaf and can be filled with pork, or sweet items like brown sugar and nuts or seeds.
It was created in the west part of Sichuan and originally called ai mo. Traditionally, leaf cake was eaten during the Tomb-Sweeping Holiday, when people pay respect to their deceased ancestors.
In 1940, the snack became more popular and people started calling it “Ye’er Ba”.
The leaves used to cook it can be from tangerines, pomelo, bamboo, Banana, lotus, and some other options.

They're a perfect snack to grab on the go, or sit down at a restaurant for a quick breakfast or lunch, and maybe have some other steamed treats with it. In the video, I also eat dong cake - another west Sichuan specialty. They place I went to also serves bowls of freshly pressed wheat noodles.

WHERE TO GET YE ER BA/LEAF CAKE IN CHENGDU
Ye'er ba is 叶儿絕 in Chinese.

You can surely find these on Jinli snack street, a popular tourist attraction in Chengdu, but you'll definitely pay more than you would at other places.

I went to a place located southwest of Nijiaqiao Metro station that's known for its buckwheat noodles. It's called Wang's buckwheat noodles or 王婆荞面. You can see it on a map here: https://ditu.amap.com/place/B001C7US99
The address is: 成都市武侯区玉林南路13号附14号

Each ball is only 2 RMB (about 32 cents).

In this series, I am eating my way through a deck of cards. I bought a deck of food themed playing cards that feature a different Sichuan dish on every card. Every week I'll shuffle the deck and pick one random card to hunt down and sample. Chengdu was the first Asian city to be named a UNESCO City of Gastronomy. It's full of incredible food - a lot of which you probably don't know about.

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Leaf Wrapped Cake Filled With Pork // Chengdu: City of Gastronomy 25

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