Preparing a Chinese festival feast back in the old days must have been a daunting task.Can you imagine grating radish for loh bok goh (steamed radish cake) by hand, instead of with a food processor, or grinding glutinous rice to make tong yuen (sweet glutinous rice dumplings), instead of buying a pack of glutinous rice flour?In Chinese Feasts & Festivals – A Cookbook (2006), S.C. Moey writes: “It is often said that the Chinese live to eat. Happily for them, China’s rich history and culture have…
↧