Once I got up in the morning, I couldn't wait to rush into the kitchen, because my mom was going to teach me how to pack rice dumplings today. My mom was speechless when she saw me in such a hurry, but she still taught me how to make rice dumplings.
First of all, my mom told me to wash the bamboo leaves that I had already prepared, and to wash them until they were shiny. Then mom took out a big bag of glutinous rice, a few bowls of red beans, a few bowls of peanuts already peeled. Then they were washed and poured into a larger plate at the same time, followed by a pair of chopsticks in the hands of each of my mom and I, stirring constantly in the plate. The sound of chopsticks tapping in the dish was like rhythmic music. When the mixing was almost even, the "music" stopped. Then we were ready to move on to Theme 1 - Making Rice Dumplings. I took a deep breath to warm up. When I looked at my mom, she was already making her own dumplings. I'm going to start too. I first took out three bamboo leaves and put them on the table, put the three kinds of food I had stirred on the center of the bamboo leaves with a spoon, then made a rectangle with the spoon, then hollowed out the center half deep with the spoon, put a piece of meat on the hollowed out place, and then covered the meat with some food with the spoon, and then made a slight trapezium shape. Wrap it up again, followed by tying it up with string. Finally the touchy-feely moment arrived. I looked at the dumplings that I wrapped in a variety of forms, and then look at my mother wrapped the dumplings so beautiful, I can not help but snicker. One by one, the dumplings were placed in the pot to steam. I began to be nervous. A long time, the dumplings cooked. I looked at my package of rice dumplings, I was ecstatic that the rice dumplings of the leaf green clean, green glowing, green refreshing. Now you can go towards the theme two - eating rice dumplings. Bite down, the glutinous rice is soft and elastic, it is really delicious, even my mom had to praise me for packing well. I nodded my head as I savored my triumph.
While I didn't get to see the grand dragon boat race scene, I was able to savor my handmade gift for the Dragon Boat Festival, so I wasn't unproductive!