Celebrate Dragon Boat Festival
The annual traditional Chinese festival Duanwujie (Dragon Boat Festival) falls on June 19 this year. Traditionally, Chinese people make zongzi (glutinous rice dumplings) and eat them at home to celebrate this festival. Yet for office workers, tight work schedules makes it almost impossible to make zongzi themselves. So here are some recommended places to buy zongzi in Beijing and Shanghai.Zongzi is a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to form a pyramid. The stuffing is mostly made of glutinous rice and complemented with Chinese dates, red beans, and salty meats. Generally speaking, zongzi is divided into two categories, salty zongzi which is popular in South China, and the sweet ones in North China.
Chinese people believe that festivals should be celebrated together with their families, yet not all everyone can make it. For those who feel homesick, they may smell something similar to their mother's zongzi from A Po Zong, which are completely handmade as well as soft and sticky.
Two flavors are recommended: the salty yolk and meat zongzi, which is stuffed with tender pork and preserved egg yolk. The other is the sweet corn. and honey Chinese date zongzi, which is stuffed with fresh corn and a big sweet sticky Chinese date.
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