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The Dong Zhi or Chinese Winter Solstice Festival is always held on the 22nd of December according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. In the evening, my family and I would sit together to share a hearty meal and make tang yuan or glutinous rice balls in a sweet soup of pinescrew, ginger and rock sugar. My sister is rolling some balls right now as I type this! She is very creative with the dough. :P I am very proud of my cultural heritage. As an Overseas Chinese, I celebrate the festival with all the Chinese communities scattered in the globe.
"Al, you do know your masterpiece will be cooked into a lump?" says Thomas.
"Shoot," says Alain.
"Al, you do know your masterpiece will be cooked into a lump?" says Thomas.
"Shoot," says Alain.
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It is the third most important festival in the Chinese calendar, after the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) [but the Hokkiens would want you to believe it is the 15th Day of the 1st Month] and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The three festivals wherein attendance in the reunion dinners are compulsory; our elderly folks would not have it otherwise.
I have outlined the ingredients in the description, really. You simply add water to the flour and roll, roll, roll until you feel the dough has become consistent in feeling. Then dump the balls into the boiling sweet soup. The balls are cooked in minutes. We usually add food colours to improve the looks. The trained chef could stuff sweet sesame, peanut or red bean paste into the balls before throwing them into the boiling soup.
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