Happy Winter Solstice! 冬至快樂!

Today is December 22, 2013. (Not anymore-- ^_^) So... today is the winter solstice day, or 冬至 dong zhi. Sounds boring, right? Well, it's not.

Dong zhi welcomes the winter. Say "Hi" to the winter, everyone!

All day you can enjoy eating delicious tang yuan 湯圓。Tang yuan is a traditional Chinese food made out of glutinous rice. Basically, it is a rice ball. It comes in a few different flavors.

They can be sweet to the taste. There are the tang yuans (if that's even a word...) with sesame or peanut insides. P.S. They're all crushed up real well. Tang yuan can also taste salty. Hakka people make a special type of tang yuan. It's filled with meat. (People call those Hakka salty tang yuans).

Or they can just be plain, in white and pink. These are sometimes in shaved ice.

Well, have a great Dong zhi (even though it passed three days ago). Enjoy eating tang yuans!