团圆汤圆

Had a lazy Saturday with the family. We went out for lunch then came home to laze some more. I did my personal expenses, and went downstairs nearby AXS machine to pay my bills. Then bought a few packs of frozen 汤圆 Tang Yuan (rice ball dumplings) from the supermarket.

Mom cooked laksa for dinner (too hungry to take pixs of her laksa though....). So I thought I could make some dessert. Tang Yuan was the easiest choice. I cut some ginger into slices, and with pandan leaves, put them into a pot of boiling water. Then I added gula melaka, rock sugar for taste. The concoction from the ginger, pandan leaves and gula melaka smelled so nice, turning the base into a brownish colour. Then the frozen rice balls (which was filled with chopped peanuts) were added into the boiling pot. Within 5 - 10 minutes, the sweet dessert was ready. We even had additional peanut powder so that we can dip the Tang Yuan into the peanut powder. Quite satisfying. But we were quite full from the lemak laksa and curry puffs and tang yuan. :)'

汤圆, 汤圆, 团圆, 团圆 (In chinese, tang yuan sounds like tuan yuan, means "reunion". So it is a must-have during Lantern Festival and Chinese New Year as well as Dong Zhi Festival (Winter Solstice).

BTW this is my 888th post!