端午节 Duan Wu Jie or Dragon Boat Festival

Tomorrow is 端午节 "Duan Wu Jie" or Dragon Boat Festival.., the 5th day in the 5th month in the Chinese Lunar calendar,(commemorates Qu-Yuan, one of China’s greatest poets and patriots, who protested against a corrupt government. ) I'm sure most of u know the stories behind this..

Well, I don't really celebrate all these festivals for many years already. Anyway, I'm on call tomorrow, and my colleague(she's on call as well tomorrow) promised to bring her "home made 棕子 chang"/"zhong zhi"/"chung" for me :) Things are different when I was back home last time ... I still remember during my secondary school times, I used to help my mother to wrap up the "zhong zhi", eg.. "bak chang" or "ham yuk chung", 'kee chang" or "kan sui (alkaline) chung", etc etc... Got special technique to wrap the rice and ingredients up with bamboo leaves ... Those were the days.. Haven't do that for more than 10 years already...

There is one old Chinese sayings that if visitors come to your house when u are boiling or cooking the "chang" or "zhong zhi" then 'part' of the chang, especially the 'corner' won't be properly cooked... I don't know how true is that.. but somehow, when visitors come, really, some of the corners of the chang is really uncooked.. funny... don't know whether is it just coincidence or ????? (Something which I don't understand..)

Well, nowadays, these "chang" or "zhong zhi" is available all year round ...

Anyway, my husband bought few "bak chang" yesterday.. from his secondary school friend's mother...She made "bak chang" for sale every year during the festival.. But quite expensive, RM3.60 per piece..But worth it, cos it's nice...

By the way, my colleague(she's my good friend as well), gave me one "bak chang" this afternoon ... that one is home made "bak chang" by her grand mother.. Nice & delicious as well :D That's my simple lunch for today...