Sunday, December 21, 2008

winter solstice festival

after an unsuccessful attempt at making glutinous rice balls, I was back on track first thing in the morning, this time adding hot water one scoop at a time. and well, it is pretty much exciting when it went from this last night: 

wet, slimy starchy mix to...

The very first ball!

a smattering of balls, that grew to...

a conglomerate of balls
 
balls heading towards the vanishing point

the king pin 

and finally, my very first bowl of tang yuen (glutinous rice balls) 
in pandan and ginger syrup no less. 

happy dong zhi!

(*Far out, I feel so domesticated here in sydney...)

2 comments:

j0yCe said...

happy 冬至!
Pretty and sweet looking Tang Yuan you have there :)

Happy Happy Jou Jou said...

Thanks thanks, happy dong zhi to you too