Nou Mi Tang Yuan

This special sweet has no equivalent name in English. In most of China, it is called nou mi tang yuan; in southern China and in Hong Kong, it is nor mai tong yeun. Both translate as “glutinous rice soup round, ” to describe a round glutinous rice dumpling with a sweet filling that is cooked in a tong soi, or a sweet soup of sugar and water. If you ask simply for tangyuan or tong yeun, you will be served these sweet dumplings in soup.

The dumplings