I'm sure we got every kind of walking race on this forum, so I figured we could post up some ethnic foods that aren't always found in the resturants, and more of a family or cultural food. So, since my parents are getting old, and im getting ready to move on with life, i decided to learn all of my parents recipes.
Ill start with what i learned last saturday.
My family is from china, and we have this little snack. Its like a spanish tamale basically. You can put whatever you want into it, but my family has done it this way for as long as ive eaten it. You use sticky rice, you can buy it and its called glutinous rice. A bean, my parents call it "green bean" but im not sure if its the same green bean as you all know, since its yellow. Pickled/salted chicken eggs. and FAT BACON!
You wrap all this stuff into dried Lotus or lilly leaf. Tie it, then boil it for a 5 hours.
These are the leafs after they've been washed.
salted egg yolks. (the raw ones have been banned from import due to the recent chinese chemical poisoning of everything, sorry guys!
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heres the best part.... you can buy bacon by the pound unsliced. Each piece is about 1.5inch long x 1/2inch thick. and SUPPER fatty.
and your end result is this triangler shaped thing.
As i was opening i kind of ate it. so no pics until later tonight when im ready to eat another one.
So what do you guys have as an ethnic/cultural food?
