dong zhi

Today is 22 Dec, a day so-called "Dong Zhi" in Chinese community, that means winter is started. Back to two years ago, SL and I were registered for our marriage on the same day, it was a lot of people registered on the same day.

Therefore, today is quite meaningful to us, it's not only a festival to us, but also an anniversary, we had a small celebration for this day, that we made some dumpling, actually it was a lot of dumpling, which is our dinner :)

We chose almond paste as our soup and red bean paste as the filling, we searched all recipes online and this is our first trial, it was really a nice experience though we couldn't make a perfect dumpling, we were still able to enjoy it and our filling is quite juicy, which was nice.



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