1. With a caliper in every chef's hand, each rice dumpling would be examined for its perfect roundness.
2. In countries nearer home where the Chinese Diaspora first landed, the humble rice dumpling has evolved and incorporated local tastes.
3. A Din Tai Fung specialty dumpling made with purple rice and purple sweet potato.
4. But this year rice dumpling prices in general have risen so high that many ordinary consumers cannot afford them.
5. The reed wrapping of the rice dumpling is taken off and fried with crabmeat with cracked bone.
6. Fried crab with glutinous rice dumpling and chili is a very interesting combination of sweet and spicy tastes.
7. Zongzi is dumpling made out of glutinous rice and mung bean paste wrapped in either bamboo or banana leaf.