What you do when you crave for hometown food?

It was Dragon boat Festival. In actual fact, we were more into the food that we eat during the festival than the festival itself. *guilty* This year, we did not manage to get back to Singapore to satisfy our craving for dumplings. What did we do? We decided to give it a shot to make our own.

After spending about 20 minutes googling and watching YouTube, we started cooking. Soaking of the leaves and marination of the meat had been done the previous night.

After cutting and overnight soaking of all the ingredients required, the next stage of frying started. Every single ingredient need to be pan-fried, except for chestnuts and canned peanuts.

Mushroom

Chinese sasuage

Dried shrimp

Marinated sliced pork belly

Glutinous rice

Next, the wrapping begins. The wrapping part is really an art to master. If it's wrapped too loosely, the ingredients will leak out during the cooking process. If it's wrapped too tightly, the texture changed. We wrapped it by feel and trial and error since it's our first time doing it.

The best part of the whole process was stuff the ingredients in. We can always choose to put more of our favorites and less of what we don't like.

After all the wrapping was done, we boiled them in for 2 hours. We were excitedly anticipating the outcome of it.

The outcome was: A few of them was tied too loosely, leading to lost of ingredients to the boiling water. However most of them were nicely done. The amazing part was, it tasted better the next day and so forth. We don't understand why but it just tasted better if we left it in the freezer longer. Well, I doubt we will be doing it again anytime soon, but it was a good first try!