Teochew bak zhang (glutinous rice dumplings) 肉粽 | Dumpling festival

My husband's grandma makes the best dumplings - they’re refined over decades of practice - and they are unlike any I’ve tried in that they have, tucked away in one corner of the pyramid, red bean paste wrapped in caul fat. In glutinous rice dumplings, caul fat’s function is to keep the red bean paste from smearing all over the other ingredients, consolidating it in one spot for a sweet hit. It might sound odd to have sweet bean paste in a savoury pork dumpling, but it seems that the boundary between sweet and savoury has always been a fluid one in Asian cuisines. Recipe: sgpnoodles.substack.com/p/its-nearly-dumpling-fest… Newsletter: sgpnoodles.substack.com/ IG: @sgpnoodles

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