🐉 Dragon Boat Festival & Zongzi: More Than Just a Rice Dumpling Today is the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival), one of China’s oldest traditional holidays, celebrated for over 2,000 years in memory of the poet Qu Yuan. The festival is famous for exciting dragon boat races, colorful traditions, and of course—Zongzi (粽子). 🥟 What is Zongzi? Zongzi is a traditional Chinese rice dumpling made from glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves and tied with string before being steamed or boiled. Fillings vary by region, including red bean paste, dates, pork belly, salted egg yolk, mushrooms, and more. 📸 As shown in these images, Zongzi comes in many shapes and wrapping styles across China—from the classic triangle zongzi and pyramid zongzi to square, pillow-shaped, bamboo-tube, and even butterfly-inspired designs. Each shape reflects local culture, craftsmanship, and culinary traditions. 🌿 A simple leaf, some rice, and centuries of history—Zongzi is not just food, but a delicious symbol of family, heritage, and celebration. #DragonBoatFestival# #DuanwuFestival# #Zongzi# #ChineseCulture# #TraditionalFood# #FoodCulture# #China# #RiceDumpling# #Festival# #CulturalHeritage# #AsianFood# #FoodHistory#

East Asian food in the U.S. was honestly pretty disappointing. The Chinese and Japanese food I tried weren’t very good, and I haven’t tried Korean food here yet, so I can’t really say. But the Thai food was really good.

Kfoury thinks Americans are becoming more discerning about what “Mediterranean” means. As the label can encompass cuisines from Lebanon and Turkey to Greece, Italy and Morocco, he compares it to the way Americans once broadly categorized distinct cuisines as “Asian food.”

I visited another Korean cafe with friends today 🍜 I LOVE Korean cousine and sojuuu 🤤 What is your favorite dish? Any recommendations on Asian food I have to try? 🥟 #totalblack# #koreancuisine#

Loving my time in New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤️ Beautiful nature. They really love to preserve nature and the local Māori culture here! Every city in New Zealand is very well developed with good infra and quality of life everywhere, unlike in SEA countries where you see a skyscraper on one side and the other side is a big area of slums 😅 Not impressed with the food unfortunately, I miss Asian food the whole time I'm here 😂 Building a remote software company is awesome. You can travel the world and work at the same time. Not sure how much longer we have until AI take over all of the software work 😄