Tong Yuen Festival :D

Today is Tong Yuen Festival for the chinese :D

For those who are a bit puzzle about this, let me help you out. 

Tāngyuán or Tong Yuen is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water. Tangyuan can be either small or large, and filled or unfilled. They are traditionally eaten during Yuanxiao, or the Lantern Festival.

I copy paste the info xD because I don't even know the right explanation. If i ask my mom, she will say this & that in chinese and would be awfully hard to direct translate what she said O: All I know is that, I get to eat the delicious glutinous ball today :D! 

LOOK how big is that glutinous ball XD 

(picture one) even my dog is like ''o.o'' haha

 another 3 glutinous ball :D

these are the mini and usually the standard size for Tong Yuen.

Actually, my mom didn't make those. She bought it XDDDDD

 before I ate them. 

It looked like a smiley face with giant eyes xD 

In the glutinous ball, usually there is no fillings. But as time pass, people starts to get more creative and as you can say 'playnig with their food'. All thanks to them, we now have multifarious or Tong Yuen.

 (the giant glutinous tong yuen) 

some are stuffed with red bean

and even crushed peanuts. 

If you're lucky enough, you get to stumble on to more various of tong yuen fillings. From green tea paste, black sesame, yam etc. Maybe there are more out there. I might never know there can be some tong yuen fillings that I would never imagine would be in there! xD

Not only they come in multifarious fillings, they too come in a rainbow of colours! 

from green, yellow, pink

orange, red

aqua(?), 

purple!,

and even blue! 

I know there are a whole lot of colourings there >< But from what i heard from the newspaper not too long ago. They are making much more 'healthy' tong yuen. NOT to say tong yuen are not healthy lah.. but the colourings are not good for us. So they are teaching people how to make tong yuen from scratch. Example, the fillings, they use peanut, sesame.. all the same but the colourings... they use natural colourings. Meaning, they extract natural colours from fruits.

Purple from dragon fruits

Red from strawberries (any berries)

Blue from blueberries

Green from green tea 

while Orange from Pumpkin. 

Alrighty, another post coming up later :P

Happy Tong Yuen Festival :D