Master Prince is all into this festival, but only because he loves eating tong yuen.
It was an eventful day for him....
He had to 'beg' M to make the gingery sweet syrup.
He had to waited patiently the whole day for me to came back, even then I was later than usual, to make the tong yuen balls.
Discovered there was plenty of flour in the kitchen - plain, self raising, tapioca, sago, wheat, corn but unfortunately no glutinous rice flour.
It was drizzling then.
So DH got roped into getting the right flour.
In the meantime experimented with the other flours - nope, can confirm they all do not work! :(
Finally, the right bag of flour arrive and immediately went to work. Master Prince was all happy to roll & shape them; gleefully he fishedcook the cooked tong yuen out. Finally the got his wish.....
It was an eventful day for him....
He had to 'beg' M to make the gingery sweet syrup.
He had to waited patiently the whole day for me to came back, even then I was later than usual, to make the tong yuen balls.
Discovered there was plenty of flour in the kitchen - plain, self raising, tapioca, sago, wheat, corn but unfortunately no glutinous rice flour.
It was drizzling then.
So DH got roped into getting the right flour.
In the meantime experimented with the other flours - nope, can confirm they all do not work! :(
Finally, the right bag of flour arrive and immediately went to work. Master Prince was all happy to roll & shape them; gleefully he fished
The long awaited and most wonderful tasty bowl of tong yuen in Christmas colours :)
Yes, after a whole day of major anticipation he had double helpings - two huge bowls of them!!! Does that mean his age doubles up too with each additional bowl consumed??? lolz
For more information on this festival, read more at wikipedia.
Recipe to make the tong yuen mosey here.
4 comments:
my boys love tongyuen too... i'm glad that the younger generation didn't turned away fr these very meaningful 'food' to the chinese!!
thank god, MP's wish was granted despite the rain & late night, lol
one of the year I made a mistake when making Tang Yuen also. Bought "Rice Flour" instead of "Glutinous Rice Flour". When and boil the Tang Yuen. Waited and waited for so long...how come the TY never float one?? Told one and ate..yuck LOL
Had this on wed AND last night!
store bought!
jacss, pitied him waiting whole day for this - poor guy but he was happy in the end.
small kucing - yes GRF very important for this. at least we tried and learn.
emily - these are actually very easy to make though usually buy the ones with fillings.
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