Last Sunday i was a good girl for my granny. I stayed at home and helped out with the making of sioh bar zhang! (dumplings!)
Its a yearly routine that granny follows. every year, the sunday before the lunar calendar's 05.05 (wu yue chu wu) granny will make tons of bar zhang, for ourselves and giveaways to relatives and close friends.
the preparation will start early in the morning, around 7am. from marinating of the pork, frying the gultinous rice, cooking of slated eggs, frying of spring onions, cooking of gao lat..... yeah a long long list! yes, and she did it all by herself! of cuz my aunt and ima will help her with the bits and pieces la, but you know, the main chef is still her.
the worst part is,
none of my aunts master the skill of wrapping the bar zhang! cuz its really tough and if you dont wrap properly, the rice will come out, or the leaf will tore... so its a tough skill i must say. hahahah
and i master it!!!!after numerous attempts!!! FINALLY! and its my virgin year of bao-ing (wrapping) bar zhang.
i am so pround of myself! heez! anyway its a very tough and tiring thing, cuz i realise you need alot of strenght and patient, cuz certain time the bar chang's shape wont be pretty for the wrapping the first time. so you need to meddle with it till its the right shape.
yeah while i was practicing, i always call my bar chang
alien shape, cuz its so weird! its not triangular, its damn squarish or was it circular... damn any of it is jialat la. wahahahha!
Anyway my popo's bar chang are
super delicious! and one of the reason why is below! take a look.
