Siwawa

A siwawa (Chinese: 丝娃娃; pinyin: sī wá wá "swaddled baby", also known as "Guiyang spring rolls"^[1][2] or "silk doll") is a Chinese dish, native to and a local specialty of Guizhou, consisting of a paper-thin glutinous rice pancake that is small enough to fit easily in one's palm, wrapped around fillings of julienned fresh, fermented, or stir-fried vegetables such as shredded cucumber, pickled turnip, fried soybeans, crushed chilis, shredded kelp, shredded potato, pickled radish, mung bean sprouts, fishmint, pickled fiddleheads, and jueba bracken roots.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} Some vendors include cui shao (Chinese: 脆哨) as a filling.^[7] The dish traditionally is a common street food or hawker food but eventually started to appear at events such as weddings.^[4] It is one of the most well-known of Guizhou's traditional snack foods but is also eaten as a formal meal.^[6][7]

Spicy and sour-flavoured sauces known as zhanshui (Chinese: 蘸水) are commonly incorporated into wraps or used as dipping sauces. One popular sauce recipe includes a combination of ingredients such as stock, dried chili pepper flakes, and sesame oil.^[3][6]

The dish's name, "baby in swaddling clothes," is derived from its appearance. Strips of ingredients are wrapped in a rice pancake, resembling a wrapped infant.^[5][3][4][6] It also resembles an uncooked egg roll and is sometimes considered "a member of the spring roll family".^[5][7]