Glutinous rice

Adrienne Rich, born in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, died in 2012, was an influential poet and essayist, as well as feminist and political activist. Rich was the eldest of two daughters, and was largely influenced by her parents. Her father, Arnold Rice Rich was the Chairman of Pathology at Johns Hopkins, and always encouraged Adrienne to read and write her own poetry as much as possible. Her early influences include Arnold, Blake, Keats, and Tennyson. Her mother was a concert pianist and…

Writing Assignment #1: Gorilla Growing up, there was one movie that was constantly in the DVR. That movie was Tarzan. Watching it often as I came home from daycare, it was one of the few films my parents bought for my brothers and I to watch. I was fascinated by the idea of a man living with what I thought of at the time as monkeys. Much time has passed since then, and as I grew older, my perspective changed on what I once thought were noble beasts. After watching films like King Kong and…

to warm the body and treat colds. This candy should try to maintain your health. Here I describe How To Make Ginger Candy. Ginger Candy Ingredients : - 5 kilograms of ginger that has been peeled - 4 kilograms of sugar - 3 kilograms of refined glutinous rice flour - 1 kilogram of butter - 1/2 kilogram of cornstarch - 100 grams of Citric Acid - Potassium Sorbate to taste - Sodium Benzoate to taste - Cinnamon to taste - Clean water to taste -…

If the main dish doesn’t have rice to provide the starch content, noodles are used instead. They are eaten at all hours of the day, they are used in breakfast in soups, or simply stir-fried like a snack or used elaborately used in the main dish along with meat, fish and vegetables. In Vietnam “rice and noodles” are one of most important ingredients. Bread Vietnamese people eat a lot of bread…

The United States and China are on opposite sides of the world, so one might think they have very different traditions, and that is correct. Chinese tradition is very different from American tradition, especially, holiday traditions. In the short story Fish Cheeks, Amy is embarrassed by her family’s Chinese ways of Christmas Eve dinner. Chinese food, and table manners and customs are quite dissimilar from American food and customs. Chinese and American traditions around the holidays are very…

Eating is not just meant to fill the stomach. It is an essential part of living, having food at one's disposal, being able to consume a decent amount of food, and knowing what and how to eat are all viewed as a good fortune. Chinese people believe to obtain physical as well as mental harmony and inner peace, a good meal is essential. After many difficult years of war and hunger, living standards in China are now as high as ever before and of course ingredients are also easier to obtain compared…

Festivals Festival can be defined as any occasion for celebration, especially one which commemorates an anniversary or other significant event, and normally the festival celebrated give people so much to remember until it becomes a memory. Different countries have different festivals, history, culture, values, beliefs, languages and religions. Therefore, this rules apply to the Kadazans too. There are several festivals celebrated by the Kadazans, and is still practiced until now. The Harvest…

and three older brothers: Quang, Vu, and Khoi. Ha’s life in “Inside Out & Back Again” relates to the universal refugee experience because life started out okay, gradually got worse, and then got better. “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes, even underneath”(Lai 1). This explains what their family usually does for Tet, which is like our New Year’s. “Last September she (Ha’s mother) would give me fifty dong(Vietnamese currency) to buy one hundred…

after the Vietnamese wedding ceremony) Some days after the Vietnamese wedding ceremony, it is usual that the bride and the groom and the groom’s parents go to the bride’s house to greet the bride’s parents. The offerings of the ceremony are capon, glutinous rice, and a wine…

needed, good clothes, houses, food, and financial progress, but after war their lives got twisted ‘inside out’, they had to skedaddle their homes. In Inside Out And Back Again page 1 stanza 2, it says, “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes even underneath”. In ‘Children of War’ by Arthur Brice, real refugee kids talk about their experience, “After the war started, you could not even go out of your house. I had to crawl through my apartment on my…