The Dragon Boat Festival is undoubtedly one of my favourite Chinese festivals, after the Chinese New Year. The latter one gets both money and good food, while for the former one gets... rice dumplings! Rice dumplings or bak chang in Hokkien or zong zi in Mandarin is one of my favourite foods. It is compact, and has all the necessary ingredients for a complete meal - meat, rice, veges (beans) and egg. Some people may think that glutinous rice is too filling, but the quantity of rice in a normal triangle shaped bak change is just right.
Luckily bak changs are available all year round, not just during the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that bak changs came to be because during the The Three Kingdoms era, a well known poet was so admired by the people that when he drowned himself the villagers threw lumps of rice into the river to feed the fishes so they would not gnaw at his body.
For me, it means a good feast of a rice dumpling, even two or three!
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