Dumplings

Dumplings Festival or....aka.....Qu Yuan Festival

For the peeps out there who don't have a clue what this is all about.......

This festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, honouring an eminent and respected scholar, Qu Yuan, who drowned himself, after his city was conquered. The city folks who were very fond of Qu Yuan, then threw packets of rice into the river, so that the fish wouldn't devour Qu Yuan's body..............that's how the story goes.....

Ofcourse the Chinese nowadays take this as an excuse to make these dumplings and eat/share them :p

Still it is quite a feat to produce these little, triangular packs of rice. Main ingredients are still the glutinous rice and pending on taste, it could be laden with pork, dried shrimps, mushrooms, or plain veggie. And as it is so labour intensive the whole household is gathered up to make these little wonders of food.

So our holy 'Sunday' was focused upon making dumpling, dumplings.....and dumplings.....

Correction, aunty Lily & the maids and Datin Seri's mum made it happen......

Did Jess, Laetitia and me try our hands on it? Ermmmm......nope.....we did eat it though :)

Yummy, yummy....can't wait till next year again.