Festival Food

So this is the favorite food for the festival, but I don't remember what its called. Its sticky rice wrapped in a banana leaf, with something sweet in the middle. The story is that somebody died in the lake and the Chinese didn't want the fish to eat his body, so they threw these in as a distraction.

Dragon Boat Festival

June 19th 2010
So I've returned from Kunming to attend the famous Dragon Boat Festival! Our Chinese partners took it upon themselves to guide us around Xixi wetlands and show us the Dragon Boat Festival. The original plan was to have a picnic and then go to the Xixi wetlands to watch the race, but after finding out that the race started at 12 and not 1, those plans changed. We grabbed some street meat and jum ... read more

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