{"id":144,"date":"2004-02-05T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2004-02-05T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T10:54:03","slug":"yuan_xiao_jie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Yuan Xiao Jie (&#20803;&#23477;&#33410;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the 15th and last day of the Chinese New Year also known as Yuan Xiao [&#20803;&#23477;&#33410;]. The Hokkiens call this day <i>Chap Goh Mei<\/i>, and it simply means the 15th night of the Chinese New Year in the Hokkien dialect. The day&#8217;s also supposed to be the Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day. Legend has it that young unmarried women are supposed to throw tangerines into the sea in the hope of finding a good husband. I guess I should head to the nearest supermarket to buy a crate of tangerines and dump them into the Singapore River. Oh but then, I would probably get fined by the authorities. heh.<br \/>\n<i>Chap Goh Mei<\/i> is also supposed to be a night for family members to get together for dinner, like a second reunion dinner of sorts.  Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingsasian.com\/goto_article\/article.2329.html\">here<\/a> for a more detailed write-up on the celebrations that take place on the 15th night of the New Year.<br \/>\nTang Yuan (&#27748;&#22278; sweet glutinous rice balls) are usually eaten on this night to symbolize peace and unity within the family. I love eating Tang Yuan! It usually comes with those filled with sesame paste, red bean paste and peanut powder paste. The latter is my favourite. Served with a bowl of sweet soup, TangYuan makes for a delicious dessert.<br \/>\nGo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiokadelicious.com\/shiokadelicious\/2003\/12\/happy_dong_zhi.html\">here<\/a> to read more about TangYuan.<br \/>\nI usually buy the frozen ones from the supermarket. Unfortunately for me, I haven&#8217;t stocked up on any TangYuan so there&#8217;ll be none for me tonight. Wwaaaaahhhh!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the 15th and last day of the Chinese New Year also known as Yuan Xiao [&#20803;&#23477;&#33410;]. The Hokkiens call this day Chap Goh Mei, and it simply means the 15th night of the Chinese New Year in the Hokkien &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}