Day 14 || Rice Dumpling (粽子)

Posting about my activities every day...is a chore for me as I was not used to it. I have never thought of its usefulness till now~

Though today is not the actual day for 粽子 or Rice dumpling , I would like to share about what my TN did for this annual "98年新竹市 - 市區創造成果品".

This event is to exhibit some of the local communities' products. Hsin Chu in itself have many 市區 (She Qu) ... Kangle Village is one of them. As in what is this 市區 about? I can't really explain it very well here, but one 市區 is similar with one village. For example, Kensington area in Sydney is one 市區, or Pasar Besar in Solo Indonesia is another 市區. Each of these 市區 typically have community hall which brings together the people living surrounding it.

Anyway, straight to the cooking steps:

Ingredients
- Bak Cang Leaves for wrapping -- Sauced Tofu - -Mushroom Enoki -- Seasoned Pig Soup -
-Glutinious Rice Soaked -
- Cai Bo -- Dried Small Shrimps -

Steps

1. Firstly, stir fry garlic and already fried onion and dried small shrimps with butter and oil. Add salt for seasoning.

2. Add in Cai Bo and more salt, sugar and pepper. After frying all together, put them aside
3. Steamed glutinous rice for around 30 minutes or so in a steamer.
4. Get ready for packing time!

-Er Nai Packing the Rice Dumpling - I tried to help in packing the 粽子 (Rice Dumpling) but failed miserably :(

And since these are for sale, it is better for me not to help packing any other than one haha

The event is located at a community hall in Yu Ting, Wu Yi Ji.

- Kangle Stand - - Other works from other 市區 -

I have heard of Taiwan packaging before. They are one of the most innovative when it comes to packaging. Food packaging, beverage packaging, cups, chopsticks,etc ... it is all very creative. Kangle has work together with a local high school (Kuang Fu High School) for their design project. I wished at that instant that I am still in young and able to enroll one high school in Taiwan as they provide packaging design courses!!

Here are the people behind the screen:

And here are their products :