Crystal zhongzi 水晶粽子

水晶粽子
水晶 shui jing = water crystal
粽子 zhongzi = leaf wrapped dumpling

Here is another unusual zhongzi. The recipe is based on Thai tapioca dumplings, Sawku Sai Muu. The pastry dough is made with tapioca pearls. They are called crystal zhongzi because the pastry is translucent. The pastry is very soft, bouncy, rubbery and chewy. I really like the texture. The filling is delicious and spicy

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Hakka mochi zhongzi 客家粄粽

Ker ja bun zong 客家粄粽

Zhongzi can be written as 粽子 or 糭子

Today is Duan Wu Festival 端午節 or Dragon Boat Festival. The origin and story behind this festival see Wiki. Zhongzi or leaf wrapped dumplings are a must to be eaten during this festival.

There are few ways to wrap zhongzi. Most people use bamboo leaves, available dried in most countries and fresh is available in some S E Asian countries.

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Fish fragrant aubergine jiaozi-wartip 魚香茄子味餃子鍋貼

This recipe is inspired by two of my favourites, fish fragrant aubergine and jiaozi dumplings. This isn't a classic recipe but a tasty combination. If you don't believe me give it a try you will be addicted. The dumplings are tasty with a nice spicy flavour. Tasty enough without needing any dipping sauce, but I still make a ginger spicy vinegar to go with.

Unlike standard fish fragrant

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Hakka steamed dumpliings 客家茶粿

Chinese name: Hakka chai guo 客家茶粿 or Hakka chai bao 客家菜包 In Brunei we called these dumplings chai kuih. I remembered in our family we used to have them for breakfast nearly every weekend, we buy them from the kuih lady in the market. Eventually we learnt how to make them and have them as and when we feel like making some. I have never seen these dumplings in UK restaurants, the only way I can

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Five spice, peanut and pork zhongzi 五香花生豬肉粽

I nearly missed the correct date for Duan Wu Jet 端午節. I knew it's the 16th but my silly head keep thinking it's Thursday instead of Wednesday today.I made another batch of zhongzi last night, this time is savoury with ground roasted peanuts and pork only, flavoured heavily with five spice. I think this is Hakka style zhongzi, we used to buy these at the market all year round when I was still

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Lye zhongzi 鹼水粽

It's time for zhongzi again. Duan Wu Jet 端午節 or more commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival is this Wednesday 16th June.Various pronunciations or writings for these rice dumplings.粽子 = 糭子 (zhongzi, zongzi, joong, chang in Hokkien)Zhongzi is a must for this festival. There are many different recipes for these sticky rice dumplings, more popular are meaty savoury types there are also sweet ones

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Chinese dumplings - Jiaozi 餃子

I love Chinese dumplings and I am sure many of you too. There are hundreds of different kind of Chinese dumplings, from quite small and dainty to golf ball size, so many different methods to wrap, so many different types of pastry and infinite types of fillings. Dumplings can be boiled, steamed, fried or deep fried. And different parts of China have their own different recipes.Southerners'

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Savoury Zhongzi (五香鹹肉糭)

It's Dragon Boat Festival (Duan Wu Jet 端午節) again on Thursday 28th , which falls on the 5th day of the 5th month of Chinese lunar Calendar every year. Duan Wu Jet always celebrated by the racing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings or Zhongzi 糭子.No idea whether there will be any dragon boat racing anywhere in UK. I love zhongzi, it's a rice package normally wrapped by bamboo leaves with

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Last Day of CNY and Sticky Rice Ball Dumplings 湯圓慶元宵 - Part 2

Continued from the last post, here are more sticky rice ball dumplings recipes.This next one is deep fried by far my favourite, very popular in our house and similar texture and taste to Jin Dui balls 煎堆 you get from the Chinese dim sum restaurant.DEEP FRIED STICKY RICE BALLS (PUFF BALLS)For the ingredients/ methods:Before you make the fried puff balls, get some roasted peanuts (plain unsalted is

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Abacus Beads 算盤子

To go with CNY and celebration food, I had made some Chinese gnocchi called Abacus beads 算盤子. This is typical Hakka cuisine and is eaten at most Hakka celebration meals. It’s a good luck dish because the dumplings are round, smooth, sticky and chewy similar in meaning to Chinese as the sticky rice dumplings as mentioned in the last post. These round dumplings are made to look like the beads on

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Last Day of CNY and Sticky Rice Ball Dumplings 湯圓慶元宵 - Part 1

Today is the last day of CNY, here wishing all Chinese a Happy 元宵節 yuan siu jet (in Cantonese) or Tzap Goh Meh (in Hokkien). Most families will celebrate the ending of the New Year with a feast.Some people also called today the Lantern Festival day, most families will display and play with beautiful lanterns (mainly paper and bamboo lanterns), and lantern processions everywhere, a jolly happy

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