Locals celebrated Dragon Boat Festival this past weekend...and while we didn't see any fancy boats, we did get our fill of the traditional food made during this festival!
The snack is called zong zi, sticky rice wrapped in leaves.
There's all different kinds of flavors: pork, egg, bean. But our teacher spiced it up a little by leting us try the plain ole sticky rice kind but dipping it in sugar and some other powdery stuff that tastes like peanut butter! Does she know us or what?
We jabbed out chopsticks right through them and started dipping away into the sugar/powdery pnut butter mix. (above) And my classmate turned the zong zi decorations into earings (below).
A few of our friends wanted to give us a taste also. 
Our 2nd time eating zong zi for a meal (above), and 3rd time (below).
The snack is called zong zi, sticky rice wrapped in leaves.There's all different kinds of flavors: pork, egg, bean. But our teacher spiced it up a little by leting us try the plain ole sticky rice kind but dipping it in sugar and some other powdery stuff that tastes like peanut butter! Does she know us or what?We jabbed out chopsticks right through them and started dipping away into the sugar/powdery pnut butter mix. (above) And my classmate turned the zong zi decorations into earings (below).A few of our friends wanted to give us a taste also. Our 2nd time eating zong zi for a meal (above), and 3rd time (below).And we even ate it a 4th time this weekend for an afternoon snack. But this time I got a little creative and melted butter and cinnamon along with the sugar for dipping. ;)
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