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How To Make Tangyuan For Chinese Lantern Festival

iWalk 8 February 2009 28 Comments

Chinese Lantern Festival is coming on 9 Feb,2009. It’s the first full moon day of the Chinese lunar year. It’s also considered as the end of the Chinese New year. According to Chinese traditon, We will eat Tangyuan (汤圆 in Chinese, Also called Yuanxiao in English) together with family members on Lantern Festival and Winter Solstice Festival.
Do you love Tangyuan too? And Do you know how to make them?

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Tangyuan is made from glutinous rice flour. You can prepare glutinous rice flour in a bowl and slowly add hot water until they mix into dough. Then you can pinch off the dough and roll them into small balls.

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Then you can fill tangyuan with either sweet or savoury fillings. Sweet fillings are often made from peanut butter, black sesame seeds or red beans. But I always prefer the savoury fillings made from meat, mushroom and green vegetables.

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Then try to enwrap all the fillings into glutinous rice dough.

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You can make different forms for different fillings.

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Ready? Then you can drop these balls into boiling water and cook them for about 8 minutes until they float. Okay, Just enjoy them!

Know more about Tangyuan at Wikipedia: Tangyuan

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jam said:

我们只在冬至吃汤圆，而且我们的汤圆是没有馅的。

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iWalk reply on February 8th, 2009 5:22 pm:

各地的习俗是有些差异呢，我们这里管没有馅的汤圆叫粉子，粉子醪糟也是我的最爱，哇咔咔。:D

# 8 February 2009 at 11:06 am

heidi said:

I am going to find this rice flour and make some. I had never heard of these and they look just delicious!

iWalk reply on February 8th, 2009 5:25 pm:

Maybe you can find them in China town these days, Heidi.
But I love these made by meself.

# 8 February 2009 at 11:18 am

Demetrios the Traveller said:

yammyyy!!!
a very tasty post
I will try to make it as soon as I ll be back home
happy lunar year

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iWalk reply on February 8th, 2009 5:37 pm:

I think you have tasted this kind of Chinese food when you traveled to China before, Haven’t you?
Have a great journey, Brexians, I hope I can travel as much as you!

# 8 February 2009 at 1:52 pm

My Bug Life said:

I love tang yuen..my all time fav Chinese dessert and I prefer the sweet ones. Have never tasted the savoury ones though.

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iWalk reply on February 8th, 2009 5:41 pm:

Yeah, Most Tangyuan are sweet, But in my hometown at Southern Yangtze River, we love savoury ones. So we often make them ourselves. because we seldom can buy savoury ones in supermarket!

# 8 February 2009 at 3:05 pm

foongpc said:

I love tang yuen too! Like my bug life, I also like the sweet ones and have never tried the savoury ones. Feel like having them right now! : )

iWalk reply on February 9th, 2009 1:51 pm:

I love savoury ones partly influence by my father, Partly because I can’t eat too much sweet things.
But I love all things made from glutinous rice flour!

# 8 February 2009 at 6:08 pm

sudha said:

Hi iwalk, In south India where I belong to we make a similar dish like this on special ocassions but the difference is we used to fill the rice dumblings with a mixture of scraped coconut and jaggery cooked in low flame and then steam the rice dumblings for 10 minutes in a pressure pan. I love that it tastes really very good

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iWalk reply on February 9th, 2009 1:53 pm:

I want try your dish of India style too, Sudha. I think that’s yummy too!

# 8 February 2009 at 10:55 pm

JH said:

我刚学会用Macbook 来写华文，如果华文程度不够标准，在这里多多指点！！

好好吃的汤圆，跟新加坡不一样，我从小到大，都不吃汤圆，通常在一旁看人家吃！！但是，照片里的汤圆看起来好好吃！！！如果有机会，一定要跟您在中国偿试各种好好吃的美食！！！！

祝您圆宵节快乐！！

JH
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iWalk reply on February 9th, 2009 1:57 pm:

哈哈，这是我喜欢Mac OS的一个理由，在各种语言之间相互转换太容易啦！

你的华文很不错呢，JH. 不过还希望你继续指点我的英文哦！

元宵节快乐！等你的哈尔滨冰雪图片！

# 8 February 2009 at 11:59 pm

yanjiaren said:

I have to learn to make these, seeing that I am marrying a Chinese man!

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iWalk reply on February 9th, 2009 2:01 pm:

I always wonder why you know so much about China, And you have a Chinese name, Yanjiaren. Oh, It’s the answer!

I think your husband is eager to taste the TangYuan make by you!

# 9 February 2009 at 9:28 am

Santosh said:

Read the article really interesting recipe. i will try this with indian touch flavor.learn a new dish eager to taste it.

iWalk reply on February 10th, 2009 12:39 pm:

Me too,Santosh!
When I see some new recipe, I want try it at once!

# 10 February 2009 at 1:34 am

Scarlett said:

Great post.. keep writing my friend..
Good job! ^_^

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iWalk reply on February 10th, 2009 12:44 pm:

Thanks Scarlett,You too! I love to see more Indonesia travel fun from your blog.

# 10 February 2009 at 2:02 am

Jodapoet said:

They look so yummy. I have seen them in Chinatown here in SF and I also saw them in Hong Kong though I’ve never tried them. You have made me want them though so I’ll make a trip to Chinatown for them

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iWalk reply on February 10th, 2009 12:48 pm:

Yeah! I had eaten some Tangyuan at Chinatwon when I visited SF. Oh, I feel they were not as great as the ones made by ourselves.

# 10 February 2009 at 6:04 am

winona said:

hmm chinese lantern, it’s lovely. I’ve never meal tangyuan before. It seems that you cook it yourself, great, perhaps you can pass them to me in Indonesia

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iWalk reply on February 10th, 2009 12:55 pm:

Yeah winona, My father know a lot about these traditional food, he taught me a lot.
I will cook many kinds of traditional Chinese foods for you when you visit here!

# 10 February 2009 at 12:02 pm

Gennaro said:

Bet they’re tasty. Look great.

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iWalk reply on February 11th, 2009 1:03 pm:

Yeah,They are tasty.
And I love to make them together with whole family members, The atmosphere is so sweet.:D

# 11 February 2009 at 12:08 am

sherry said:

I love Tangyuan. But this year’s Lantern Festival, my family just played fireworks to celebrate it.

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iWalk reply on February 12th, 2009 8:16 pm:

Ha, My family only eat Tangyuan this Lantern Festival, Not play fireworks.

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# 11 February 2009 at 4:47 pm

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