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today is dongzhi which means its tangyuans day. i remembered how i was complaining during last year's dongzhi because i was in france that day and the closest french dessert that resembles tangyuans is chocolate truffles. the shape, fullstop. sorry but tangyuans are irreplaceable.

i pestered my mom to buy the tangyuan dough for me to roll my own. when i was a kid, my whole family would be up early on this day and get busy in the kitchen. my sis and i would be rolling tangyuans and competing who can roll the roundest, prettiest tangyuans faster but we always lose to our grandma while my mum would be preparing the syrup & my dad laid out the roast duck& stuffs for praying purposes. after my sis went uk for her degree and my grandma retired from the kitchen-scene, it was left with only my mum & i rolling the dainty pink&white tangyuans. its a tradition that never dies in my family simply because i insist on rolling my own. but this year, i was the only one to roll these dolls; not that im complaining. i love messing around in the kitchen anyway.