What is this food called in English?

[TecHNooB]

Anyone? =o

Actually its more trigonal pyramidal (hah, take that chem!)

 

[shortylickens]

I know you're not talking about that elf bread from the movie.

 

[Ns1]

onigiri

oops n/m that's nori

i don't know the word for what you're speaking of, but I eat it all the time haha.

 

[loup garou]

Are you talking about onigiri? It is wrapped in nori though.

 

[EvilYoda]

No, it's an asian "food", in Mandarin it's "dsong4 dse3" (sorry, I never know how to phoneticize things). I don't have the answer though, so I'm quite curious if anyone knows

 

[richardycc]

fish food.

 

[Ns1]

I would actually guess that it's called "sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves"

 

[loup garou]

oh...these things?

 

[richardycc]

its called Zongzi

 

[Ika]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi

These things? The ones in the pics are a little misshapen, but they have the basic shape.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Aflac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi

These things? The ones in the pics are a little misshapen, but they have the basic shape.

WTF zongzi!??

I'll stick to calling it "sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves"

 

[TecHNooB]

Zhong Zi is the han yu. I guess there's no short english translation besides the literal one.

Just curious, do white people eat this stuff?

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: Aflac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi

These things? The ones in the pics are a little misshapen, but they have the basic shape.

WTF zongzi!??

I'll stick to calling it "sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves"

Same here. I always seem to get the right item when I call it that, so I'll just stick with it.

KT

 

[makken]

hmm are you refering to these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi
?

EDIT: heh, people got to it while i was looking it up on wiki

 

[outofloop]

maybe this -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosa

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: outofloop
maybe this -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosa

Not even close

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB

Just curious, do white people eat this stuff?

never had it / never heard of it / never seen it

you don't eat the banana leaf do you?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Zhong Zi is the han yu. I guess there's no short english translation besides the literal one.

Just curious, do white people eat this stuff?

I'm white and I'll eat pretty much anything.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: TecHNooB

Just curious, do white people eat this stuff?

never had it / never heard of it / never seen it

you don't eat the banana leaf do you?

Speaking as a white person I can say yes I do eat this stuff.

Fobot: no you do not eat the leaf, unless you want a very unpleaseant experience on the way in and out.

KT

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: loup garou

I'm white and I'll eat pretty much anything.

i would try it, i just never had the chance yet

around here "chinese" restaraunts only serve americanized white rice(not sticky) or fried rice

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: loup garou

I'm white and I'll eat pretty much anything.

i would try it, i just never had the chance yet

around here "chinese" restaraunts only serve americanized white rice(not sticky) or fried rice

americanized chinese food is the worst shit ever. PF chang's is bearable.

 

[amoeba]

I like the version with red cooked pork the best but the ones with chinese sausage, shitake mushrooms, and dried shrimp aren't bad either.

 

[D1gger]

I'm white, and those are one of my favourite foods. I was taught how to make them by my wife's grandmother, but it is a lot of work so we usually just buy them from the local chinese grocery store. They are called jung in the chinese dialect that my G-i-L spoke.

 

[Chronoshock]

Zong zi is typically wrapped in bamboo leaves (I make about 60 every year), although a version using banana leaves is often used in dim sum. Also, zong zi typically do not have a triangular shape, but they have 4 points (imagine a twisted rectangular pouch). Rice wrapped in banana leaves can be found in many cultures, not just Chinese, namely Caribbean cuisine. The fillings and type of rice vary depending on the recipe and culture. Zong zi is filled with sticky, glutinous rice and either soy sauce, fatty pork, and sometimes mushrooms (eastern Chinese style) or salted egg, pork sausage, pork, dried shrimp, chestnuts, and more (southern Chinese style).

 

[chowmein]

cantonese is "Jon" or "Jown"