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: Marina Mandarin
6. Peach Blossoms at Marina Mandarin
You’d best be zeroing in on Peach Blossom’s newest rice dumpling that is lavished with chewy abalone, crunchy sakura ebi and velvety foie gras ($21.80), promising multi-dimensional experience of contrasting textures and differing flavours. Those yearning for tradition can also look to the restaurant’s Traditional ‘Hakka’ Pork Belly Rice Dumpling ($15.80) and the classic Hong Kong Style Rice Dumpling ($28.80), filled with abalone, conpoy, pork belly, mushrooms, salted egg yolk, chestnut, lotus seeds and lentils. Peach Blossoms offers up a vegetarian, but equally luxurious, option with the Vegetarian Multigrain Rice Dumpling ($11.80) with cordyceps flower, black truffle and mushrooms. The dumplings are available until 18 June.
6 Raffles Boulevard, Level 5, Marina Mandarin, Marina Square, Singapore 039596
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