Ingredients:

Glutinous Rice (to be soaked for at least 2 hours. Drain and add salt)
Dried Shrimps (soaked in hot water)
Dried Chinese Mushrooms (soaked in hot water and finely sliced)
Sweet Winter Melon Strips (cut into small pieces)
Minced Pork (to be marinated with chopped onions, soya sauce, sugar, salt, pepper and corn flour to taste)
Garlic (chopped)
Chestnut (to be boiled and peeled)
Dried Bamboo Leaves (to be wet) remember to clean throughly
Plastic String

Filling:

Oil a big wok and fry the garlic until light brown.
Drain the dried prawns and add them to the wok. Fry.
Add in the mushrooms. Fry.
Add the minced pork. Fry, occasionally adding the water used from soaking the dried prawns and the mushrooms.
Add dark soya sauce, sugar and pepper to your liking. Fry until the filling is almost dry.

Methods:

Fill the bamboo leaves with glutonous rice. Each dumpling has to look like little 3D pyramids. First, grease the right side of the leaves and fold in such a way so that you get a pocket.

Hold firmly. Scoop 2 tablespoonfuls of rice and put it into the pocket, making sure that they are spread against the sides.

Scoop about 3 or more spoonfuls of the filling. Press to make sure it is compact. Followed by another 2 tablespoonfuls of rice, again making sure the dumpling is compact before wrapping.
Close the "lid" of the "pocket", folding both sides down and lastly, fold the tip. Tie the dumpling tight with a string.

After wrapping all the dumplings, submerge them into a big pot of boiling water and boil for about 1 hour 30 minutes. After that, let them drip dry.

*You can vary the fillings (more mushrooms, pork etc) to your own liking.

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