Chinese Tamale 绿豆粽

Boat Festival 端午節 has become popular the world over as a sporting event--dragon boat racing.  The food for this festival, however remain a relative unknown to most.  Zong 粽 is like a tamale, wrapped in bamboo leaves mostly, rather than corn husk.  This is a very popular one with soaked sweet rice (which exists in almost all traditional zong), soaked shelled mung beans, salted egg yolk and five spice and soy sauce marinated pork belly.  These things, are wrapped in layers inside bamboo leaves, tie up and boil in water for a couple of hours.  I like to eat this unwrapped with dark soy sauce and a sprinkle of white pepper.






And this is what they look like.