Bamboo-leaf-wrapped sticky rice( zongzi)

Bamboo-leaf-wrapped sticky rice is called as 粽子(zongzi). How do we make it? In brief, I introduce the recipe as follows:

First, clean glutinous rice(actually, you can choice black or white glutinous rice) and soak it for three to four hours in water,and then drain the rice.

Second, steam shelled peanuts by a rice cooker.

Third, stir-fry chopped pork belly, add a little sugar candy, soy sauce, and water, and then braise.

Fourth, stir-fry respectively the ingredients with previous pork juice, such as glutinous rice, diced bamboos, mushrooms, small dried shrimps, and peanuts.

Next, wrap the proper amount of the all ingredients in two bamboo leaves into the pyramid, and then tie together with string. We call each finished product zongzi.

Final, steam each string of zongzis over hot water for about 1 hour, and just wait for zongzis to become undercooked.

This food tastes delicious. It is my favorite food. You would try.

Traditional Chinese Character

Even though Taiwanese use the traditional Chinese character in contrast to simplified one in Mainland China and the traditional Chinese character is difficult to learn and write , I think the traditional Chinese character is more beautiful and art than simplified one and the evolution of the traditional Chinese character, contained pictograms, semantic-phonetic compounds, ideograms, associative compounds, associate transformation, and phonetic loan characters, is based on Chinese culture and history. Hence, I like the traditional Chinese character.

My French Friend

I am happy I have a French friend who shows great enthusiasm for learning Chinese. I like her and hope everything goes her way.