GEORGE TOWN: The Winter solstice festival saw various columbariums here crowded as many turned up to offer glutinous rice balls, or tang yuan, to pay their respects to their ancestors, despite some facing water shortages at home.
Among them was a 33-year-old data analyst who only wanted to be known as Chew from Relau, who had resorted to buying bottles of drinking water just to prepare and cook the rice balls a day ahead for her late father.
