Friday, December 30, 2016

Winter solstice

Catching up on some posts now.  I have been clearing annual leave and as usual, having to work while on leave (which is harder to do than working WITHOUT being on leave hehe).

My mum makes it a point to make 'tong yuen'/glutinous rice balls with all the grandkids on winter solstice.  The kids treat it like a playdough session... making all kinds of 'non-balls'.

This year's was completely new to me - iced soya milk base with cincau.  Tasted pretty good actually.  Also a nice dessert for after dinner.

Check out the 'dice' tong yuens

JE made this 'rainbow hotdog'

A cute one with eye and ear

There were some cute ones with black sesame seeds for eyes.  But I ate those before thinking to take photos.  Could only find these misshapen creatures later...

Some kind of creatures


My mum says it was a disaster zone of flour after the kids were done!

4 comments:

  1. I like your nice sweet dessert with the tong yuen. The kids are very creative making those cute tong yuen. And I am sure they have lots of fun playing with the tong yuen dough! Happy new year to you and family!

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  2. Good that your mother include SE and JE in making tong yuen despite knowing that it will be messy. Happy New Year to you and your family!

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  3. Nancy, I'm quite Glad my mum doesn't insist on balls! Or maybe... give up asking haha.

    Mun, there are actually 7 of these pesky grandkids! 7x mess.

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  4. It is really good to get kids involved in festive seasons like these. Unfortunately a lot of 'traditions' died in my hands...ha!ha! So my kids have nothing much to get excited about festive seasons!

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