Song gao

Song gao is a Shanghai snack composed of rice flour, sugar, and water, with azuki beans embedded throughout the cake. Giant pink-colored azuki beans with a diameter of about are embedded on top of the cake; conventional sized azuki beans are embedded inside the cake. The cake also has a red [bean paste|red bean paste] filling. This dessert is steamed, as a large round cake and is then partitioned into sections for eating. Soong Mei-ling, who loved to eat song gao, had the Grand [Hotel |Grand Hotel of Taipei] to include her version of the cake on the hotel's menu, which the hotel continues to offer to this day.