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: Orchard Hotel Singapore
5. Hua Ting Restaurant at Orchard Hotel Singapore
Pyramid dumplings? Why not opt for those shaped like giant pillows? Hua Ting Restaurant’s Hong Kong Style Rice Dumpling ($32.80) embodies the bedroom comforter, sealing the lavish ingredients whole abalone, roasted duck, roasted pork, dried scallops, mushrooms, salted egg yolk and chestnuts in glossy glutinous rice, before bundled up with bamboo leaves and a single louts leaf. For sweet tooth, look to the classic Cantonese “Kee Chang” with Red Bean Paste ($6.80), where luscious red bean paste is encased in lye water-treated rice grains. The dumplings are available for both dine-in and takeaway until 18 June.
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