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|title=Ai Wo Wo (艾窝窝) - Chinese Food Wiki
|keywords=Ai Wo Wo,艾窝窝,艾窩窩,Aiwowo,Beijing snack,sticky rice
|description=Ai Wo Wo (艾窝窝) is a Beijing traditional snack of steamed glutinous-rice dough wrapped around sweet nut-sesame fillings, served cold or at room temperature.
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{{Infobox chinese food
| image = Ai Wo Wo.jpg
| caption = Ai Wo Wo
| alternate_name = Aiwowo; Aiwo Wo; love nest cake; Beijing sticky rice ball snack; 爱窝窝
| pinyin = Ài wō wo
| type = Glutinous-rice ball snack with sweet filling
| course = Snack / tea pastry
| country = China
| region = Beijing traditional snack (often Hui/halal pastry shops); northern Chinese snack menus
| other = Beijing snow-white sticky rice ball — not tangyuan boiled in soup
}}

'''Ai Wo Wo''' (Simplified Chinese: 艾窝窝; Traditional Chinese: 艾窩窩; Pinyin: ''Ài wō wo''; also '''Aiwowo'''; sometimes written 爱窝窝) is a Beijing snack of steamed glutinous rice formed into snow-white balls around sweet fillings such as sesame, walnut, melon seed, sugar, hawthorn cake, or red-bean paste, then dusted with cooked rice flour. Ming notes (including eunuch Liu Ruoyu's ''Zhuozhong Zhi'') already describe related glutinous "wowowo" sweets; soft Qing romance tales tying the name to a single imperial romance are folklore. It is traditionally associated with Hui/halal snack shops. It is '''not''' boiled [[Tangyuan]] in sweet soup, though both are sticky-rice spheres.<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiwowo Source]</ref>

== Characteristics ==

Matte white spheres; soft sticky exterior; sweet crunchy or pasty filling; usually served cold/room temperature, ready to eat without further boiling.

== Ingredients (overview) ==

Glutinous rice; sweet fillings (sesame, nuts, sugar, hawthorn, bean paste); cooked rice flour coating. Overview only.

== History and culture ==

Beijing snack classic with Ming textual traces and later Qing/popular halal-shop fame (e.g. temple-fair and Huguosi snack culture in tourism writing). Soft exclusive inventorship legends are folk. English says "aiwowo" or "ai wo wo." See [[Beijing Food]] and [[Wandou Huang]].

== Serving and variations ==

Tea snack or seasonal street sweet. See [[Beijing Food]], [[Wandou Huang]], and [[Tangyuan]].

== See also ==

* [[Beijing Food]]
* [[Wandou Huang]]
* [[Tangyuan]]
* [[Qingtuan]]
* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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