In cold winter days like these, nothing beats a hot sweet dessert that warms up your stomach. A store in Kaohsiung sells traditional hot glutinous rice balls that are completely covered with sesame or peanut powder, which altogether give a chewy and delicious taste.

White sticky rice balls are soaked in boiling sugar water.

It looks so warm and tasty.

After scooping them out from the sugar water, the rice balls are rolled in sesame or peanut powder.

The taste is so good.

Many people are waiting in line to get a bite of the hot sticky rice ball dessert.

It sure is a great winter treat.

Usually people enjoy the food with boiling hot red bean dessert soup too.

Some customers order 20 to 30 mixed red bean dessert soups to go.

The dessert shop also takes pride in its sweet peanut soup.

The ingredients are high-quality peanuts from Beikang.

The soup is only served after being stewed for eight hours.

Just by looking at it you will start to feel warm in the cold weather.