Sunday, December 21, 2008

Happy Winter Solstice



Today is Winter Solstice festival or Dong Zhi “冬至节”. Chinese celebrating this day by having a reunion dinner and eating tang yuan (glutinous rice balls in sweet syrup). I always make tang yuan on this day, have been doing it for years so it's like a custom already. This year I made Pandan flavored tang yuan with Gula Melaka syrup.

I actually made a mistake because I was out of glutinous flour and I added too much water, so the dough was too wet. So I had to use some rice flour to make the dough pliable. In my mind, I was hoping that it works because throwing away the dough was too wasteful , also Evy was too eager to help and eat the tang yuan. In fact, she has been bugging me to make tang yuan and I always postponing her by saying wait until Winter Solstice day. So, I can't possibly disappoint her again. Luckily it still works! The shape is not as round as I prefer but taste wise it is still very similar to tang yuan texture.

Now, wishing everyone in U.S.A a Happy Winter Solstice Festival (as Malaysian celebrated it yesterday).

16 comments:

  1. happy One year older! lol!.I just finish eating tang yuen with Mishu,try to teach her chinese festival even we live in US and A.

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  2. same goes to u!
    the gula melaka syrup looks so tempting! how did u get gula melaka in US??

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  3. These look really delicious especially pandan and gula melaka. Great combination.

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  4. I love the balls too... yummy!

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  5. looks so nice n the color is so pretty

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  6. It still looks great with the rice flour and the pandan flavor must have make it taste wonderful.

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  7. Same to you, beachlover. :)

    Gigi, we can buy it online here.

    Thanks Jo, bits of life and Isha.

    Yes, sweet jasmine, luckily I can saved it.

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  8. haiz, I missed 冬至. Only realised a day later when my mum told me ;p Those balls look tasty =D

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  9. I love the flavour of pandan and combination with gula melaka, sometimes I put ginger to give it more warm in the cold weather :)

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  10. Looks good to me!

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  11. Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas to you , your hubby and the two liitle angels.

    Hope everything gets even better this coming year! have a great time over this festive!

    Merry Christmas, Sidney & Sunny xxx

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  12. Hey Ching,

    Wishing you and yr family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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  13. oh yess!!! Happy belated tong zi as well! I love the green in those!! =)

    andddd..Merry Christmas! Happy coming 2009-where we cook and feast our way through! =)

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  14. When I looked at the picture, I thought you were a big fan of green tea as I did, LOL. Nevertheless, they looked yummy and the color was nice also

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  15. mmm...I haven't had that for years ! I didn't know when it is ... got to ask my mom next time in advance :) Then I have to get my butt to start some Chinese traditions with my little girl or else she won't know her Chinese roots. :p

    Those pandan Tang Yuen of yours is delicious looking. I can just smell and taste it from the screen.

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  16. happy new year to you and your family

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