Dumplings with a personal touch

1 The vegetarian bak chang consists of multi-grain rice, glutinous rice, brown rice as well as assortment of mushroom, salted egg yolk and black- eyed peas.2 Yap (right) teaching her daughter, Elissa Ng how to tie a ‘pillow’ dumpling.3 Chong selling traditional glutinous rice dumpling in Petaling Street.4 Lee with his vegetarian bak chang.

AS THE Duanwu festival approaches, many people are reliving the tradition of making their own bak chang (glutinous rice meat dumpling).

Some stick to traditional flavours of the glutinous rice dumplings, while others have come up with new taste combinations.