the chinese are celebrating duan wu festival tomorrow. and of course the preparation for the compulsary glutinous rice dumpling (zong zi) has started way earlier. i think 2 days earlier grandma had started soaking those bamboo leaves to wrap the dumpling. then it was soaking the ingredients for the filling.
the ingredients we use for our version are glutinous rice mixed with mung beans (stir together), marinated pork (my favourite in a dumping yum yum), chestnut, oyster, mushroom and yellow beans (???). others use salted egg yolk which i am sure to dig out and give to someone else. haha...i will dig out the oyster and give it away too in ours.
as i am writing this, the dumplings are boiled outside using slow charcoal fire. so dinner today and lunch tomorrow...no prize for guessing correct- dumplings! hmmm...come to think of it, i think i heard grandma talking about popiah. might be lunch tomorrow since wei is back. so tomorrow's post will be popiah to wet your appetite.
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