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- noun a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour
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Another interesting part of this festival is the yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, also called tangyuan 汤圆.
Archive 2008-02-01 Phil Razem 2008
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Another interesting part of this festival is the yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, also called tangyuan 汤圆.
Happy Lantern Festival Day! Phil Razem 2008
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Rice dumplings are Lantern Festival's traditional food because according to my student the word "tangyuan" sounds like the word "tuanyuan," which means reunion or gathering, furthering the importance Chinese place on the family and collective spirit.
Archive 2008-02-01 Phil Razem 2008
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Rice dumplings are Lantern Festival's traditional food because according to my student the word "tangyuan" sounds like the word "tuanyuan," which means reunion or gathering, furthering the importance Chinese place on the family and collective spirit.
Happy Lantern Festival Day! Phil Razem 2008
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Tzara Geraghty, a tall, 13-year-old eighth-grader, plays the yangzin, a Chinese dulcimer, in a Chinese music ensemble, loves to eat tangyuan dumplings made of rice flour with red bean, sesame and peanut butter fillings and is looking forward to a coming school trip to Beijing.
Growing Diversity Fuels Chinese School Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011
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Unlike other tangyuan I've had though, these weren't just filled with one type of sweet, like red bean paste or black sesame paste, but a rainbow of ingredients.
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To accompany my plate of fried pork dumplings, I ordered sweet rice dumplings (10 pieces for $3), glutinous rice-based, chew-ilicious tangyuan.
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We browsed an old bookstall with antique blocks of wooden movable type for sale, ate Ningbo tangyuan (rice balls with black sesame amaretto paste inside, in soup) and Cheerios, watched the fish in the pond fight over bread crumbs, saw a strange heron-like bird under the Yu Garden crooked bridge, heard a mini-concert by a man playing the bamboo flute, watched a shadow play narrated by a guy dressed in period costume and featuring Zhu Ba Jie eating KFC, and flew through the throngs of tourists to catch a bus at Xin Bei Men. the 64, which took us to the Xinzha Road metro station.
Micah Sittig: News 2008
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