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TTChino
06-04-2003, 04:53 PM
happy duang wu jia.

eat your zhong zhi
SunWuKong
06-04-2003, 05:18 PM
oh yes! i didn't even remember, having hermitised myself this week.
kasia
06-04-2003, 06:07 PM
so what's the significance behind it anyway? in cantonese, it's called 'duen mn jeet'. what kind of zhong zhi do you like?
SunWuKong
06-04-2003, 06:17 PM
Originally posted by kasia@Jun 4 2003, 09:07 PM
so what's the significance behind it anyway? in cantonese, it's called 'duen mn jeet'. what kind of zhong zhi do you like?
we were told the story behind this festival when we were little kids.

it's the story of a good and loyal minister called Qu Yuan that was foolishly dismissed by his emperor. later he committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. people loved him and they threw zhongzi into the river to feed the fish so that the fish wouldn't eat his body.
Chris
06-04-2003, 06:55 PM
Yeah I remember reading about him in Chinese School. He has my upmost respect.

So I am eating about a dozen zhong zi that my mom made. :D
iris
06-04-2003, 06:56 PM
I love that story. I'll be making Zhong Zhi all week. We're a traditional family.
ChinaLama
06-04-2003, 08:21 PM
more significant, why are there 2 bunboys in YW?
tvbdude
06-04-2003, 09:32 PM
I love "naw mai" :luv:
mr. x
06-04-2003, 09:45 PM
err pardon my ignorance but whats all this about?
SunWuKong
06-04-2003, 09:56 PM
Originally posted by mr. x@Jun 5 2003, 12:45 AM
err pardon my ignorance but whats all this about?
it's about the Dragon Boat Festival. :)
AngryABCGirl
06-04-2003, 10:41 PM
it's that time of year, when I bring zhong zi, to lunch, everyday, for a long time, because someone drowned himself and people needed to make sure the fish didn't eat him

sorry, I can't eat anymore.
SunWuKong
06-04-2003, 11:03 PM
Originally posted by AzNBuffGrL@Jun 5 2003, 01:41 AM
it's that time of year, when I bring zhong zi, to lunch, everyday, for a long time, because someone drowned himself and people needed to make sure the fish didn't eat him

sorry, I can't eat anymore.
HAHAHAHAH!! that's really funny. why do people always make so much zhongzi only to have to eat it for the rest of the entire month??? doesn't make sense.
YuheiCarreau
06-04-2003, 11:46 PM
Anyone feel like translating / explaining for the non-Chinese YWers?
SunWuKong
06-04-2003, 11:55 PM
Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Jun 5 2003, 02:46 AM
Anyone feel like translating / explaining for the non-Chinese YWers?
sure thing :)

short summary on the Dragon Boat Festival (http://www.hkta.org/dragonboat/)
Deadpool
06-05-2003, 12:11 AM
Hey! I was in my HS Dragn Boat team! First Ever Dragon boat team in the history of the school and we actually won a trophy at the Vancouver International Dragon Boat Festival in our first year!
deez nuts
06-05-2003, 05:11 AM
Originally posted by ChinaLama@Jun 4 2003, 10:21 PM
more significant, why are there 2 bunboys in YW?
stop harrassing my brother!
Uncle Tat
06-05-2003, 07:59 AM
Haha yeah I heard that story too.

He probably just tripped while making a speech :) j/k :rolleyes:
ChairmanMah
06-05-2003, 11:59 AM
what is this shit?!?

i don't think i've ever eaten it before. Or maybe i just don't recognize the name.

what is it made of?
Shuriken
06-05-2003, 03:29 PM
Originally posted by bunboy421@Jun 4 2003, 11:53 PM
eat your zhong zhi
http://hongkongaction.free.fr/pix/tagziyi.jpg

Huh? Eat your Zhang Ziyi? I had no idea...
ChairmanMah
06-05-2003, 04:07 PM
Originally posted by tazadar@Jun 5 2003, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by ChairmanMah@Jun 5 2003, 10:59 AM
what is this shit?!?

i don't think i've ever eaten it before. Or maybe i just don't recognize the name.

what is it made of?
I think the correct Mandarin pinyin is zongzi and in Cantonese is jahong (sounds something like that). It's a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice with fillings (egg yolk, peanuts, sausage, etc.) wrapped in bamboo leaves and boiled cook in water. Zongzi is a traditional food eaten during the Double Fifth (fifth day of the fifth month) Festival of the lunar calendar. The tradtion revolves around Qu Yuan, the poet, who committed suicide over the sad state of Qu during the Warring States period. The people were moved by his patriotic act and devised the idea of cooking rice wrapped in leaves to feed the fishes rather than have the fishes fed on Qu Yuan.
Oh, jhoong.

yeah, i like those. Especially when they put in more of the that yellow bean stuff, mushroom & pork.

yeah it's all good only if they don't skimp on the stuff and give you all rice.

damn, i can't remember the name of that yellow beany mush. i like that stuff.
SunWuKong
06-05-2003, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by tazadar@Jun 5 2003, 07:01 PM
Originally posted by ChairmanMah@Jun 5 2003, 10:59 AM
what is this shit?!?

i don't think i've ever eaten it before. Or maybe i just don't recognize the name.

what is it made of?
I think the correct Mandarin pinyin is zongzi and in Cantonese is jahong (sounds something like that). It's a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice with fillings (egg yolk, peanuts, sausage, etc.) wrapped in bamboo leaves and boiled cook in water. Zongzi is a traditional food eaten during the Double Fifth (fifth day of the fifth month) Festival of the lunar calendar. The tradtion revolves around Qu Yuan, the poet, who committed suicide over the sad state of Qu during the Warring States period. The people were moved by his patriotic act and devised the idea of cooking rice wrapped in leaves to feed the fishes rather than have the fishes fed on Qu Yuan.
jahong?

in Cantonese it sounds about the same as zong zi. it's jung ji.

粽子
SunWuKong
06-05-2003, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by tazadar@Jun 5 2003, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by SunWuKung@Jun 5 2003, 05:59 PM
jahong?

in Cantonese it sounds about the same as zong zi.  it's jung ji.

粽子
You're being anal. jung, jhong, wong... screw this romantization. :D
不如用中文寫啦！