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Using less oil and sugar is too simplistic a modification..

Video 1 does not have enough lighting.

Where is the audio comments made by your parents?

What you gave was just a written statement. This is not enough.

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Video did not capture all the details of the 3 tasks.

Evaluation only covered 2 aspects. Appearance was not mentioned.

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Why are you doing your own evaluation?

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Good job for the modification. However should more details on how you cook the tang yuan. Evaluation is too brief, lacks details. Must touch on all the 3 sensory asoects if taste, texture and appearance.

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You have put in alot of effort to do the different modificcations. Good job.

For the reflective sharing, it lacks depth. Should have asked your mum and brother to comment more . Instead of just saying colour

, perhaps, he should mention the colours and shapes of the tang yuan. Your mum could have commented on the different taste.

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Comment/ Submit a post on some of the modification you observe from the samples below:

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Comment/ Submit a post on some of the modification you observe from the samples below:

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Identify and apply two modification you had made to the original recipe.

Take a picture of your modification (change of ingredients/methods etc) as evidence

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Submit 3 videos (1 video 1 post)

Using header such as:

[Your Name]_ Video 1: Preparation and Assembly

[Your Name]_ Video 2: Cooking

[Your Name]: Video 3: Presentation and Reflective sharing from __ (identify who evaluated your dish)

For students who are unable to upload your videos directly into padlet, please create a folder (with your name) in the google drive and SHARE WITH ME YOUR LINKS TO ACCESS YOUR uploaded videos.

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Submit two key points

One strength and One weakness during your completion of the Care Package task.

Using heading such as Preparation, Assembly or cooking processes when evaluating your Care Package.

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Tang Yuan is a dessert made of glutinous rice balls in a sweet clear soup usually served during the Winter Solstice Festival to mark the arrival of winter.
Winter Solstice Festival, also called Tang Chek in Hokkien/Fujianese or Dong Zhi (冬至) in Mandarin, is a Chinese celebration that usually happens between the 21st and 23rd December. Tang Chek means the "arrival of winter". Traditionally, farmers would lay down their tools and celebrate the harvest by going home to their families. A feast is prepared to mark the occasion. On this day everyone becomes one year older. It is also the day when the sun has reached the Tropic of Capricorn. Therefore, it is the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere.

The significance of Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls)

There is always some special food associated with Chinese festivals. For this one, families get together to make and eat Kuih Ee/Ee Th'ng or Tang Yuan (湯圓), a dessert made of glutinous rice balls in a sweet clear soup. The roundness of the Kuih Ee signifies togetherness. In Malaysia, premixed colored dough is sold at the wet markets. The favorite colors are red, green, and yellow. Most people will buy the dough and form the balls at home, an activity much enjoyed by the kids. The sweet soup is made of a simple syrup flavored with pandan leaves and ginger.

A Celebration of Togetherness

I have to admit that while I enjoyed rolling and forming the balls as a kid, this is not exactly a favorite dessert of mine. The glutinous rice balls are way too doughy for my liking. However, when I moved here, I realized that the tang yuan sold at the Asian grocery stores usually came with a filling of black sesame seed, lotus seed, or red bean paste. Now, that made a huge difference as I do like all three types of filling. Since I had some red bean paste left over from making mooncakes, I went ahead and used that for the filling. I am glad I did.

Ro-Taro (eldest son) returned home from campus two days ago for the holidays and it was a time of celebration and togetherness for us. What better time to make these than yesterday so that we could enjoy them together. The soft and chewy glutinous rice balls with the red bean paste filling were delicious in the sweet and fragrant syrup. I would definitely make these again!

Time for Another Round of Nona-Nona

This month's theme for Nona-Nona is DECEMBER, selected by my blogging buddy Denise. It can be any foods related to the month of December, be it Yuletide or any other seasonal or year-end specialties. For the month of October we both made the same dish. You can check out our past challenges here. She decided that we should have a broad theme this time so that we can better surprise each other and not have that happen again. I immediately thought of Tang Chek and Ee Th'ng instead of goodies for Christmas. Hopefully Denise will keep with the Christmas theme. Let's hop over to Singapore Shiok! to see what she has cooked up in her kitchen.

Related Products Used in Making This Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls)

This post contains affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy here.

Erawan Glutinous Rice Flour, 16 oz
Pyrex Prepware 1-Cup Measuring Cup
Cuisipro Stainless Steel Measuring Cup and Spoon Set

Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls) with Red Bean Paste Filling

A little early but here is wishing you a
HAPPY TANG CHEK / DONG ZHI / WINTER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL!

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Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls) with Red Bean Paste Filling

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Tang Yuan is a dessert made of glutinous rice balls in a sweet clear soup usually served during the Winter Solstice Festival to mark the arrival of winter. Winter Solstice Festival, also called Tang Chek in Hokkien/Fujianese or Dong Zhi (冬至) in Mandarin, is a Chinese celebration that usually happens between the 21st and 23rd December.

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Tang-yuan stuffed with red bean paste 红豆汤圆 [English/Chinese SUB]

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i didn't use oil

i used lesser sugar

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Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp (5)

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Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp (2)

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johan video 3 presentation and reflective sharing from my parents

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johan video 3 presentation and reflective sharing from my parents

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one strength is that i used the right ingredients

one weakness was that the balls were a bit soggy

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Modifications made:

Change of filling (chocolate, peanut)

Different colouring for Tang Yuan

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Karis (Video 1: Preparation and Assembly)

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Karis (Video 1: Preparation and Assembly)

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Karis (Video 3: Presentation and Reflective sharing by mother and brother) 

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Karis (Video 3: Presentation and Reflective sharing by mother and brother) 

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Strength: Not overcooking the tang yuan

Weakness: Wrapping the fillings in the tang yuan

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What has happened to your videio?

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1. Added crushed peanut for the filling

2. added colors to the dough

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emailed

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Strength: Cooking them without bursting them.

Weakness: Wrapping them, if you stop at the right time, you can see 1 or 2 tang yuans bursting.

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I didn't use oil

added colour to the dough

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Dough was too wet so you could not shaped it well.

Red bean paste was also too wet. Should add some flour and chill it till it is in a semi hardened state . With this, it is easier to shape the paste into tiny balls for you to wrap with the tang yuan dough.

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Sarah (Video 1: Preparation and Assembly)

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Sarah (Video 1: Preparation and Assembly)

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Sarah (Video 3: Presentation and Reflection sharing from younger brother)

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Sarah (Video 3: Presentation and Reflection sharing from younger brother)

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Emailed

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Strength:

Texture of the dough was soft

Weakness:

Taste of the red bean filling was not sweet

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modifications made:

change of filling: gula melaka and black sesame paste

different colours

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Modification 1: green coloured tang yuan

Modification 2: pandan flavour

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Daywi video 2 (cooking)and 3 ( evaluation from a friend)

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Daywi video 2 (cooking)and 3 ( evaluation from a friend)

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Strength: making it into a nice round shape

Weakness: no filling

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added Nutella as filing

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she didnt say much haha

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Preparation:

strengths- my dough was the desired texture

weakness- added too much filling into some of the tangyuan and they ended up spilling out of the tangyuan

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modifications made:

no oil used

added flavoring to the syrup

(picture emailed)

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one strength is that the texture was chewy

one weakness was that the dough was that i added more water than needed

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- i added crushed peanut filling

- i added less sugar and i did not add oil

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faith (task 2) : presentation and reflective sharing from sister

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faith (task 2) : presentation and reflective sharing from sister

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strength: my dough was very smooth

weakness: i didnt add food colouring and it didn't look very presentable

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Adding raisins

Adding walnuts

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Good modification. A unique combination of walnut and raisins.

The wrapping part was not clearly shown.

Evaluation far too brief.

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modification 1: pandan

modification 2: add food colouring in the dough

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Strength : able to wrap the dough properly

Weakness : some of the filling spilled out

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Why was the cooking done so slowly?

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Strength: very chewy

Weakness:no filling