The Chinese have many variations: steamed, fried, grilled on a hot plate and even served piping hot with soup inside. But the king of all dumplings might just be zongzi, ...

Zongzi: The Chinese Version of Tamales. By . Jen Chung. Published Apr 16, 2007. Modified Mar 7, 2008. ... MayMay sells a variety of zongzi as well as other dumplings and dim sum favorites.

In the United States, zongzi, or joong in Cantonese, are sometimes called Chinese tamales. It's good shorthand. Instead of a corn husk casing and corn masa as the grain, zongzi use bamboo leaves ...

Esteban Zottele holds a tamale, the Mexican version of Chinese zongzi.Photo: Li Hao/GT . The first time Huang Kangming found out about Vietnamese sticky rice dumplings was in 2012 when he studied ...

Zongzi, or sticky glutinous rice dumplings, ... Legend has it they were created back in 278 BC, after exiled Chinese poet Qu Yuan killed himself by jumping into a river.

Eng’s Zongzi also sells frozen meat, fish and vegetable dumplings (each bag has 50 dumplings) and shrimp and pork wontons. There are four tables, two inside and two outside the small space, but ...

It's a sad but memorable tale in Chinese history. However, for home cooks, the Dragon Boat Festival is all about making zongzi. My Taiwanese-Australian mum tells me there are many varieties of ...

THE humble zongzi or Chinese dumpling, made with glutinous rice, has become haute cuisine for the rich and sold at exorbitant prices in China, Sin Chew Daily reported.