Happy Chinese Dragon Boat festival day. Apparently a famous officer that wasn't satisfied with the emperor .... okay you're not allowed to say that Sha doesn't know the story. As stated here "The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings." We have been trying to make dragon boats without much success, but we have been successful in eating Zonzi or tzungtzu. I've also just been introduced to "Ancient Early Taste Mochi" for dessert. A study of the ingredients tells me that it contains red bean, brown sugar, glutinous rice and sorbic acid. It's odd. The Zongzi we ate apparently was a red bean rice dumpling.
I came home yesterday from giving a public talk where the average age of the audience was about 110. At home I discovered Sha playing with a big, fluffy white cat with another cat getting very jealous and the two guinea pigs looking rather worried. Anyway, Halo, the new cat is definitely very pretty!
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