Friday 19 June 2015

The Duanwu Festival (端午節)

(19 June 2015)
 This year (2015),the Duanwu festival falls on 20th June ie the fifth day of the fifth month of lunar calender. The chinese who celebrate this festival will prepare the rice dumplings (Zongzi,粽子).  Zongzi is a traditioal chinese food, made of glutinous rice,stuffed with different fillings(pork,chicken meat,dried prawns ,salted egg yokes  etc) and wrapped in bamboo leaves ,pandan leaves,lotus leaves )  The dumplings can be wrapped in different shapes.They are cooked by steaming or boiling.

I only started to learn how to make these dumpling few years ago. Simply because most of my children preferred the fillings that consist of diced pork meat,diced mushrooms,finely chopped "tua tao cai ie salted sliced dried reddish) and other common ingredients. This recipe was passed down from my grandmother to her daughter-in-law ie my late mother.All my mother's grandchildren had eaten these dumplings since younger days. My sister-in-law took over the duty of making the dumplings.She told me her children forever would miss the home-made dumplings.I do not really like eating rice dumplings.That was why I did not bother to learn making them until one day my son said the same thing as his cousins did.They preferred grandma's recipe. I quickly learnt the skill from my sister-in-law and I did the wrapping successfully for the first dumpling ! Now l love the process of wrapping ! Below are photos of  rice dumplings that I've made.



Tuesday 16 June 2015

Flower Dome (3)...

(16 June 2015)
In this Flower Dome (3) I have pictures of other flowers including roses and many of them l do not know their names.




























Monday 15 June 2015

Flower Dome (2b)

Flower Dome (2b) : Orchids....







                                                                                                





Flower Dome (2a)

(16 June 2015)
In this Flower Dome (2), l gonna show some of photos taken during the tour of the Garden in 2014,Sept). Orchids are beautiful flowers and here we could appreciate the beauty of the many spices grown inside the Dome ! Even though the weather then was very hot outside the Dome, the inside was a little cooler so that tourists could enjoy walking and looking at all the flowers.
Here are the orchids (2a) :