The traditional food that i found was Zong Zi which is rice dumpling in English. The ingredients that are required in order to make this Zong Zi are glutinous rice, bamboo leaves, chest nuts, dried shrimp, scallops, chinese black mushrooms, cooked peanuts, fatty pork, soy sauce, vegetable oil, garlic, sugar, black pepper, star anise, radish, rice wine and spring onions.
The recipe is as follows:
1. Soak rice in water for three hours, drain.
2. Stew pork and chestnuts for one hour in soy sauce, rice wine, ground pepper, 1 teaspoon of sugar and star anise. Set aside pork and chestnuts in bowl.
3. Boil peanuts until tender ( 30 minutes to 1 hour.)
4. Soak mushrooms until soft. Clean and cut off stalks.Stir- fry with a little liquid from stew. Set aside in bowl.
5. Chop up dried radish finely and stir- fry with 1/2 teaspoon sugar and garlic.
6. Stir- fry spring onions until fragrant.
7. Stir-fry shrimp very quickly.
8. In a large wok or bowl, add rice, then add spring onions, radish, shrimp and peanuts .Mix all together well.
9. Put all the ingrediants in the rinsed bamboo leaves and tie up like shoe laces with a double knot which makes them easy to open.
10. Steam for 1 hour , unwrap and serve.
Done By: Claris
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