Lotus Rice

Tomorrow is the 5th day of the 5th month in Lunar calendar which the Chinese celebrate Dumpling Festival. This is the day we eat Bak Zhang or Dumpling. Dumpling is too complicated and need a longer time to cook so Snow White wanted to make Lotus Rice which similar to Bak Zhang. This is her first attempt....

1) Fried the glutinous rice (which already soaked overnight) with salt, sugar, dark and light soy sauce.

2) Fried garlic, dried prawn, onion till fragrant then add in the chicken and mushroom (which season with oyster sauce, pepper, salt and light soy sauce).

3) Wrapped the chicken and mushroom and glutinous rice into the lotus leave.

4) Steamed for 1 hour and the lotus rice is ready to serve.

Lotus rice is the popular dim sum dish; more ingredients can be added like sausage, chestnut and eggs to your own taste. Snow White felt that the lotus rice is not up to her expectation. It is a bit salty and bitter....Babe guess the bitter taste come from the leaves, we did not soaked the lotus leave long enough.