A Dish For Dong Zhi - Tang Yuan
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Dong Zhi means arrival of winter in Chinese. This is an important festival for the Chinese and is the time every household make Tang Yuan, which is small glutinous rice balls make from glutinous rice flour. This Tang Yuan can be serve with sweeten soup or saltish. It is quite simple to make the sweeten soup: just bring suitable amount of water to a boil, then add sugar (preference to use rock sugar), old ginger and pandan leaves tie in knots and simmer until sugar melted. Then add cooked gultinous rice ball and warm in the hot soup and serve. You can also try the saltish version from the Hakka recipe here.
