Days or weeks before the Duanwu, also known as the Dragon Boat festival, parents will usually go get some homemade rice dumplings ( 粽子) back home from grandma's house and I will so be so happy to see those dumplings because they are sort of "precious" and we don't get to eat these homemade rice dumplings whenever we want to!
It's kinda an annually thing actually?
hah~
:D
These dumplings come in several flavors: salty (with meat) or sweet.
The salty ones, aren't actually made of salt LOL.
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The salty ones, are called 咸肉粽 in Chinese and in the inside there are pork meat, salted egg yolk (the reason why it is called the salty-tasting rice dumpling? hmm...) and other condiments wrapped within some glutinous rice, covered with banana leaves and firmly tied up with string.
The sweet ones (甜粽) have red beans inside, some are empty and yellow in color that I like most especially when I was young and small and are eaten with a coat of sugar at the surface.
Here are some shots:
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| Entangled. |
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| A focus of the celebration. |
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| The richness within that complements the unadorned appearance. |
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| Traditional basket for traditional food. |
Until then,
♥ CC.
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