Lotus Seed & Logan Soup

Ingredients
80g of lotus seeds
80g of dried logans
4 red dates
100g of rock sugar
1500ml of water

Preparation
Wash the lotus seed thoroughly.
Soak in tap water for at least 2 hours.
Bring 1500ml of water to a boil.
Add in the lotus seeds, dried logans and red dates.
Boil for 5 minutes before bringing the heat down.
Simmer for another hour until the lotus seeds turn soft.
Add in the rock sugar and stir till the sugar dissolves.
Serve warm or chilled.

Glutinous Rice Balls AKA 汤圆

This dessert brings back many fond memories for me.

This was what my Mom cooked for me and my husband when we went back to my parents' house for our wedding tea ceremony. I prefer to eat my tang yuan this way rather than the other which I recently learned - To toss the cooked glutinous rice balls into a can of sweet peanut soup.

Ingredients
1 packet of ready-made frozen glutinous rice balls
1 stalk of pandan leaves (cleaned and tied into a knot)
80g of brown sugar

Preparation
Add the pandan leaves to 800ml of water and bring to a boil.
Turn to low heat and add in the brown sugar.
Toss in the glutinous rice balls after sugar has dissolved.
Remove from heat when the rice balls are cooked.
Ready to serve.