Making Rice Dumplings

The Rice Dumpling Festival may be over, but the spirit of making good rice dumplings still stays on.

Today, the school Lion Dance Club organised a rice dumpling competition for the students. It was really very interesting to see boys and girls of all ages trying their hands on wrapping rice dumplings.

The students brought the ingredients of their choice to make their rice dumplings. Some brought only bamboo leaves and seasoned rice. The more ambitious students brought mushrooms, peanuts, and salted egg yolk. Of course, no pork was allowed in school ;p.

Ingredients

It was really not easy to wrap rice dumplings. I also tried to wrap one, but I was greedy, and stuffed it to the max with ingredients and I couldn't angle the leaf properly into a triangular pyramid.

2 students demonstrating their skills

If not wrapped and tied properly, the rice dumpling will easily disintegrate.

A disintegrated dumpling

The boys, of course, did not have the same patience that the girls did. After a few trials, they got restless and wrapped rice dumplings in their own way!

A boy's handiwork

The boys' impatient dumplings

A group of boys made a dragon boat from an egg carton and egg shells. I thought it was pretty creative.

An unfinished egg carton dragonboat

The students finished wrapping their dumplings in no time, and were judged by the teachers.





Due to time constraint, the students had to steam their rice dumplings at home. A few of them promised to give me their dumplings first thing tomorrow morning. How sweet of them. Looks like my breakfast is taken care of tomorrow morning ;) .