Join us on April 4th from 5:30-8:30pm @yungeepark as we celebrate spring and honoring of ancestors during the annual Qingming Festival or Tombsweeping Day. Much like Dias De Los Muertos, Qingming is an annual ritual to show love and respect for one’s parents, elders, and ancestors. Observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, tradition is to visit and perform maintenance at tombstones and gravesites of ancestors. Foods like qingtuan (青团): a mugwart mochi filled with sweet red bean or savory and Zongzi (粽子), a sticky rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo (what I call the Chinese Tamale and also a celebratory food eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival) are brought as offering to the spirits. Joss sticks and paper are burned. After this ritual, these foods can be enjoyed by the family.
The Qingming tasting experience explores ancestral bonds from an epigenetic curiosity- what happens when we eat and make the foods our ancestors ate? Will we unlock memories of connection, joy, nourishment that our ancestors experienced?
Sweet & Sour Pickled Bittermelon
Qingtuan (青团): a mugwart mochi filled with sweet tepary bean
Chinese Chorizo Zongzi (粽子), Chinese tamale-a sticky rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo
&
Chrysanthemum tea pairing
