Even my parents couldn't believe it when seeing this picture - in China we would celebrate Yuan-Xiao Festival by eating these sweet rice balls (Don't ask me why we Chinese have sooo many festivals, LOL), but we seldom made them by ourselves - so when we were video chatting after dinner, they asked me if I had this kind of snack, I said, "Sure, I made them and then had them!" They felt sooo surprised, haha!
Actually making rice ball is not difficult as expected, we just bought the red bean paste from the supermarket, and put them into small doughs that was made by flour, and then chop them into cute balls!
In the northern part of China, people would also put one clean coin into the dough and mix it with other rice balls, so the one who got that would be considered as a lucky guy. Since the "luck" sometimes brings tragedy if someone just swallowed the whole rice ball without biting, we don't do that any more, haha!
Here's a bunny made by my friend using the dough... It seems to be so moody, we're not eating u up okay?! :D
