Lantern Festival - Yuan Xiao (Chinese Valentine Day) In Chinese, Tang Yuan ( glutinous rice dumpling) is pronounced similarly to Tuan Yuan, which means, reunion and happiness.' Therefore, Tang Yuan has taken on a more 'romantic' reputation. The humble sticky round rice ball typically has a variety of accompaniments such as coconut sugar with fibre and black sticky rice, pawpaw and milk, green tea essence, or tremella and pawpaw, with fried shrimps and meat.See below the preparation of Tang Yuan with coconut fillings.

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Lantern Festival - Yuan Xiao (Chinese Valentine Day) In Chinese, Tang Yuan ( glutinous rice dumpling) is pronounced similarly to Tuan Yuan, which means, reunion and happiness.' Therefore, Tang Yuan has taken on a more 'romantic' reputation. The humble sticky round rice ball typically has a variety of accompaniments such as coconut sugar with fibre and black sticky rice, pawpaw and milk, green tea essence, or tremella and pawpaw, with fried shrimps and meat.See below the preparation of Tang Yuan with coconut fillings.

ho...it look delicious;

 

very interesting. Seams you had a very interesting festival.
How about the taste?

Er rr.... thank you.

You mean you never eat the stuffs?

They taste like the way you want it to taste, if you like red beans, or green beans, you can use it for the fillings, here we have coconut, which is a nutritious food for the tropical countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

If you like it sweet, then add more sugar to the receipe, and boil it in sugar tainted water. Here the people like the taste of a kind of leaves, called the Pandang leaves. This makes the soup tasty, with an aroma like the Pandang smell.

For those people with high blood sugar problem, the cooking has to be low on sugar, or use of artificial sweetener.

Street Smart

when this festival coming,our family will do these delicious stuffs.The shape of TANG YUAN just like the round,so that to mean reunion of family.