Hong Kong chefs share creative ways to cook sticky rice dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival
As well as dragon boat races, sticky rice dumplings, or zongzi, are a big feature of the festival.
Sticky rice dumplings can be sweet and sprinkled with sugar or savoury and dipped in soy sauce. But either way, they are traditionally steamed.
We asked chefs in Hong Kong, and one in Macau, for creative suggestions for other ways to prepare them.
Jayson Tang, executive chef of Man Ho Chinese Restaurant in JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, suggests drizzling deep-fried or air-fried sticky rice dumplings in golden syrup. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Jayson Tang of one-Michelin-star Man Ho Chinese Restaurant in Hong Kong's Admiralty neighbourhood suggests deep-frying or air-frying meat and salted egg yolk sticky rice dumplings , then drizzling them with golden syrup.
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