Wuzhentang is one small shop located at the old street of Mudu ancient town. Luckily, tourists can witness how black rice is made in Wuzhentang and taste the delicious black rice if they happen to travel in Mudu.

Mr. Fang Weifeng operates Wuzhentang and he likes Chinese traditional culture very much, especially the black rice. He has been researching how to make the best black rice for many years. 

According to his description, the leaves of Nanzhu trees are the most important material for black rice. In addition, Nanzhu trees are growing well only in natural and good environment and the fresh leaves should be collected and washed by local people carefully.

One of the confidential tips is the taste will be better if we add a few special triangle maple leaves to Nanzhu leaves. 

Now he starts to show me how to make the fresh black rice. Firstly, it takes about 15 minutes for him to grind the leaves into small pieces. 

He uses a piece of gauze to filter the juice of Nanzhu.

The white sticky rice is added into the juice and it is been soaking for ten plus hours. 

The sticky rice will become light green little by little. The raw black rice has been completed when it is fetched from the juice about 12 hours later.

What's the most incredible is the black rice indeed becomes black from light green when the raw black rice is cooked.  The delicious black rice is completely finished when it mixes a little sugar.

Mr. Fang has been so more passionate to preserve the typical cooking of black rice that more and more tourists come to experience this fantastic and delicate black rice. 

If you want to witness the whole process how to make the black rice, please call Mr. Fang at 13962522966 to book in advance because he is not always in the shop.