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Dragon Boat Festival, or in Chinese, falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar every year. This year, the festival is celebrated on Jun 10, and eateries are abuzz with making , or its Hokkien name  as it’s commonly known in Singapore. These were traditionally made to commemorate Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who was said to have thrown himself into a river to protest against bureaucratic corruption. To prevent his body from being scavenged by wildlife, his supporters tossed  into the water as a food substitute. No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from 8days.sg . 1 3 2 3 Traditional dumpling flavours Lao Fu Zi offers around 10 dumpling flavours, including ($1.80 each, yellow lye water dumplings that are typically eaten with plain sugar), Nonya ($5.50), with salted egg yolk ($6), Hokkien-style ($5.50 each, stir-fried glutinous rice with pork wrapped as a dumpling), and a “Cantonese-style, extra ingredients” green bean dumpling ($7.80) stuffed with pork belly, mushroom, roasted chestnut, dried shrimps and salted egg yolk. The menu tags displayed at the stall are in Chinese, but no worries if you can’t read ’em — there is also a handy list with English translations for the various ingredients in the . 3 3 Dine-in available According to netizen Mario Ong, who posted about Lao Fu Zi on Facebook group Hawkers Recommendations , customers can buy their for takeaway or enjoy it on the spot. The stall will steam the dumplings for immediate consumption and serve ’em on disposable plates. Mario, who ordered the “Cantonese salted dumpling”, commented that it was “lukewarm when I received it. The meat in it is quite savoury and the filling is good, but I find the dumpling a bit too sticky to my liking and lastly it costs $6.80”. No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from 8days.sg . www.tiktok.com/@8dayseat