Sweet dumplings/Tang-Yuan

Soup dumplings, also known as soup dumplings, are round desserts made of glutinous rice flour, The word "round" means "reunion" and "complete", so eating soup dumplings on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice dough".

Ancient poems say: "Every family pounded rice to make dumplings, knowing that it is the winter solstice day tomorrow." Every winter solstice, every family in the south will make winter solstice dumplings, not only for their own families to eat, but also gifted to friends and relatives to show their blessings, the old Shanghai people in the winter solstice is the most important to eat soup dumplings.

The above introduction says that "dumpling" can mean any kind of food that is "wrapped in dough and stuffed with fillings", so when you introduce dumplings to foreigners, you can say "sweet dumplings". Of course, Tang-yuan is a traditional Chinese food, so you can also use Tang-yuan in Pinyin.