Sunday, 30 December 2012
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A Chinese Traditional Meal: Tang Yuan
Last week, it was the Dongzhui also known as the Winter Solstice. During the Winter Solstice, most Chinese families always makes savory Tang Yuan also known as glutinous rice balls.
The Tang stands for reunion and yuan means round or complete. Eating tang yuan is symbolic of family unity or harmony.
You can eat it either savory with meat and vegetables or sweet with stuffed sweet filling. For dinner on December 21st, my mom made the savory tang yuan with pork broth, mushroom,pork, cabbage, and shrimp. The yuan (glutinous rice ball) is soft and chewy and has a gummy texture.
Tang yuan is one of my favorite cultural foods as well as winter food, because it's hearty, hot, and just very tasty! The soup is a thick soup and just very rich and flavorful.
There are restaurants that makes tong yuan too, but the homemade version of it is better. It's comforting, tasty, and refreshing!
Have you ever ate Tang Yuan? If you did, do you prefer the savory or sweet kind?
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Comments (12)
I prefer sweet one.
Yes, I have eaten tang yuan. I prefer the sweet type for dessert, especially ones made with the brick shaped brown sugar and ginger. Making them, is not as fun...but maybe it is because I am obsessed with making them evenly shaped and sized.
I haven't eaten it (them?), but it looks interesting, either way.
hhhhhuh.... I never heard of it as savory; with mental connections, the idea of a TY that's salty kinda oogs me out. But if you think about it, it's just like a very solid rice dumpling...
My favorite is black sesame in clear sugar soup. lol
yup.. made some the other day. had it both savory and sweet
Wow I grew up eating as sweet, didn't realize there's the savory kind.
i love the green tea ones, but they are hard to find.
Are those really tang yuan in your photos? They look like fishballs.
@MichellelyNg@xanga - Sounds good.
@babybug329@xanga - My mother doesn't make the sweet ones very much, but the types I prefer are the ones with crushed peanuts inside and sesame seeds :)
@purpleranger - You should definitely try it out, when you have a chance.
@DenimPants@xanga - Yes it is correct. It is a very solid rice dumpling.
@xxx_MYLiFE@xanga - Cool!
@TulleSkirts@xanga - Would you be willing to try the savory one at some point?
@sf2slc@xanga - I never had the green tea ones. It sounds interesting. Yes those are really tang yuans in the photos, but my mother does add fish balls.
@goodeatings - Oh yeah, definitely! Though, the soup in the picture looks like the soup my mom sometimes makes at home, just without the rice balls.
@TulleSkirts@xanga - Sounds good!
@goodeatings - Unfortunately, I've never seen it at any of my local Chinese restaurants.
the best and only tang yuan i would enjoy are those large ones filled with sweet runny black sesame goodness.