How to make Chinese traditional food for Dragon Boat festival

Three of the most important festivals in Taiwan are Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. Dragon Boat festival is May 5th of lunar calendar. This Wednesday is May 5th so we make traditional food to celebrate this special day. The food's names is "粽子" which is made of rice and a lot of material what you want inside, for example pork, mushroom, dry small shrimp and so on...

Today I am going to introduce how to make 粽子. I show the process step by step and I wish you can get a basic concept from these pictures.

We use these leaves to wrap food. Before using them, washing them completely.

Reshape leaves like this so that we can put material in.
Put some rice in the bottom.
Put delicious material in the middle.
Our materials are pork, dry shrimp, chestnut, some vegetable and mushroom.
Put more rice on the top.

Use the leaves to make a cover.

Wrapping completely, and don't make any leak.

Make the shape like a triangle. (I am trying to make a triangle, but I know, I need more practice.) Tie it with a string.

It is done. Did you see, we got four bunch of 粽子

Ready to eat.