Zongzi, a Chinese snack stuck in Zimbabwe
Sticky rice dumplings, or zongzi, have found a new home in the capital of Zimbabwe ahead of China’s upcoming #DragonBoatFestival.
After a busy day spent preparing them with some local friends, Zhang Li, who has been running a small food store in Harare for the past three years, had much fun sharing her tips on how to make this traditional Chinese treat.
Julian Waghann talked with our correspondent in Harare, Gao Junya, as she visited the store and joined the Zimbabweans for their cooking class to help relieve her homesickness. Watch the video to find out more.
Sketching Rice Dumplings l Dragon Boat Festival
Welcome to the episode! We cover and sketch all things Rice Dumpling and the Festival. How it came about? What's in it? How do you prepare it? And also a peek behind a Dragon Boat Race.
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1:14 Ink sketch of Queue at Kim Choo
4:16 History of the Tradition
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6:54 Hokkein Bak Chang in Gouache
7:31 Sketching a Kee Chang in watercolour
8:32 Dragon Boat Racing
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Steamed Dumplings | Chinese chives Dumpling Dough | Thailand Street Food
This place sells steamed dumplings with different stuff inside the dough like chinese chives, taro, pumpkin, carrot etc. They have 7 different favours in total.
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How we spent the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghai - Part 1
Spent the Dragon Boat festival wandering around the Lujiazui, HuangPu river area of Shanghai. Brunch at Element Fresh on Fuchan Lu in Lujiazui followed by a wander along the riverside where the local government has now partially installed a cycle and jogging path.
The Duanwu Festival, also often known, especially in the West, as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. It is also known as Zhongxiao Festival (Chinese: 忠孝節; pinyin: Zhōngxiàojié), commemorating fealty and filial piety. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar, which is the source of the festival's alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2016, it occurred on June 9; and in 2017, on May 30.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Waring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty.A cadet member of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance and even accused of treason. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry. Twenty-eight years later, Qin captured Ying, the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River.
It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of Sticky Rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body. This is said to be the origin of Zongzi.
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