#53 Dragon Boat Festival 端午節

I'm blessed with a mum who loves to cook, especially during traditional chinese festivals. Every year, without fail, she will bake all sorts of cookies and my fav pineapple tarts for Chinese lunar new year, she will make mooncakes during Mid-Autumn Festival and make dumplings during Dragon Boat Festival. I grew up eating home-made dumplings as my granny and mum makes them every year. This year, my granny is too old to do it so this 'task' was passed on to my mum solely. I tried to help but it's so tough to wrap these dumplings! It's a skill I tell you! I ended up doing what I do every year... washing up.

She makes 2 types of dumplings, one with white glutinous rice with no soy sauce and not fried and the other type where the rice is seasoned and fried. I love the latter. My neighbor popped by and commented that there are more ingredients then rice in the dumpling!

His first lesson in dumpling making... was shooed off after 5 minutes :P

1, 2, 3... 1, 2, 3... (he can only count to 3).


If you ask me if I'll carry on this tradition of making dumplings for the family, I think most probably not. Firstly I'd have to master the skill of wrapping rice with leaves and straw string. Preparation of all the ingredients, which took my mum 1 day and the wrapping and cooking, which took another day! So much work. Cooking the dumplings alone takes 3 hours!