Eating marathon

It has been like an eating marathon for me for the past few days. My parents have been stuffing me with food, which I gladly complied. However it took me some time to get used to the time change in order to get my system in full swing again. My mom and grandma said I’ve lost weight, but honestly I don’t feel any lighter but heavier than the last time I came home.
One of my favorite, Chinese dumpling wrapped in banana leaf or Zongzi which can be found in abundance during the Dragon Boat Festival. It has been a looonngg time since I last savoured this delicacy because you can only find these dumplings during this festival/season and it’s not very often I get to come home at this time of the year.It’s very difficult nowadays to find homemade Zongzi anymore. Making Zongzi is a very time consuming process. That is why for convenience sake, people usually buy from the market or from street vendors which sometimes aren’t as good as those homemade ones.

I miss those Zongzi from my grandma as she would sually put in lotsa goodies, like salted egg yolks, white beans, chestnuts and Chinese mushrooms minus the fatty pork meat which I usually will throw away . I used to sit in the kitchen as a child and watched her combined all the necessary ingredients and wrapped those delicious dumplings together in a few swift moves. It took her almost a week to finish wrapping all those dumplings for the amount of people we have at home.

As for now, we have to make do with these bought Zongzi because my grandma is over 80yrs old.