Whether you like your dumpling sweet or savoury, we got you covered
Similar to presents on Christmas mornings and red packets during the Lunar New Year festivities, Dragon Boat Festival's bamboo leaves-wrapped rice dumplings share the common practice of swift, greedy fingers, unraveling treasures that are hidden under wrappings.
With our hearts still aching at the thought of the food wastage amounted from staying true to a folklore (apparently, dumplings were dumped into a river to prevent sea creatures from consuming a tragic poet), we gladly embraced the age-old Dragon Boat Festival by indulging in these rice dumplings in the comforts of restaurants or homes.
On that note, we sussed out eight places selling some of the best dumplings in Singapore, so that you can soon get in on the festivities!
Photo: Mercure Singapore Bugis
3. Song Garden Chinese Restaurant at Mercure Singapore Bugis
Old is gold at Song Garden Chinese Restaurant with its dumpling offerings that pay tribute to treasured customs and traditions. Following the mantra of quality over quantity, the restaurant has driven its efforts to perfect just two dumplings, namely the Cantonese parcel of Song Garden Signature Rice Dumpling ($23.80), featuring an assortment of luxe ingredients such as abalone, pork belly, and dried scallop, and the petite Vegetarian Rice Dumpling ($6.80) that seals velvety sweet lotus seed paste within its glutinous rice exterior. The dumplings are available for both dine-in and takeaway until 18 June.
122 Middle Rd, Singapore 188973
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