San Da Pao, literally translated as three artilleries, is a special Chengdu food. The cook would divide a glutinous rice dough into three smaller doughs, and throw them onto a copper board successively. The sound “bang-bang-bang” is right like firing an artillery, hence the name. The doughs would then bounce into the large bamboo basket that filled with yellow bean flour. Like a ping pong ball, the doughs roll in the basket and are coated with the flour. Take the doughs into a bowl, and pour some thick black sugar syrup, sprinkle some sesames, San Da Pao is ready for you. It’s a quite cheap but palatable snack in Chengdu.