I had originally arranged with Mother to wrap bah zang on Wednesday when the boys all came home late. Then a couple of weeks back, we were going through Yu's Chinese and came across a passage on dragon boat festival. This boy said he wanted to learn how to wrap bah zang.
So I quickly rearranged to last Saturday. Yang decided to join us too as the alternative was to go with Papa who was accompanying Kai to a chess tournament.
On Saturday, I prepared Kai's usual chess tournament day breakfast - prata with scrambled eggs - and also gave the brothers some eggs. By the time we all got ready, it was pushing 9 am - so late!
I had to swing by the hawker centre to get my usual pre-bah zang fix - glutinous rice from the economic beehoon stall. Few hawker stalls sell this and none near me! So by the time I finished my breakfast and started wrapping, it was 10 am.
I demonstrated wrapping once, and helped these two with their wrapping. They managed to put the ingredients in and made one fold in the leaves :) So they didn't wrap the thing fully but it was fine. I think they had a good experience and could try again next time.
Yang had a softer grip so his leave pouch remained roundish
Yu gripped the leave pouch quite tightly so it was kind of flattened :)
I spent 1.5h making some 40-50 bah zang while the boys watched TV. Things didn't end there. As the bah zang went for their hot bath, they went to the playground downstairs. I went after them in 30 min to grab their lunch and my iced kopi - very very hot day!
It was more waiting for the bah zangs to cook and cool down, before we could bring them home. I put some aside for breakfast the next day and put the rest in the fridge.
It was a happy breakfast! Kai had two. Yang happily ate his bah zang - Mother marked out their creations with bits of ruffian string. He said he didn't know why he didn't like it last time :) Yu was sad that his bah zang wasn't pretty; it broke up as I opened it. He said he used to prefer outside bah zang to WaiPo's ones but now he had forgotten the taste of outside bah zang and this was yummy. So he had a second one - ok la, the two of them made small bah zang :)
But that means I had only one bah zang. Oh well, I could eat less... I'm just happy that all three of them like it :) This tradition can then carry on :)
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