Winter Solstice.....

Multi-colour glutinous flour balls

a.k.a Tang Yuan (Tong Yuen)


Thanks to Laura for tagging me
in this photo on facebook =)


remember the past few years since I was born
the whole family will make these Tang Yuan
at night before a day of the festival, and we
have reunion dinner on the festival day itself


somehow this year is so quiet and lonely
without the reunion dinner and also the
Tang Yuan cooked in ginger soup


my so first impression was the china students
who stayed in my whole flats, almost 30 over
of them, might be celebrating this meaningful
festival but it seems like i have predicted wrongly


these students from Nanjing doesn’t seems to
celebrate this festival, and it might be due
to the cold weather in Newcastle


i remember grandma once said,
once we eat these Tang Yuan,
it means we’re growing older a year
as the new year is approaching after this
meaningful festival to celebrate the in the
cold and it means that winter is now here


Wishing my friends and family,
Happy Winter Solstice (冬至快乐) !!! =)