How Dragon Boat Festival zongzi are my mom’s love language

For as long as I can remember, the scent of steaming Taiwanese zongzi (or bahtzang, in Taigi) filled my childhood home the weekend ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival day. Before the convenience of Asian grocery chains having a prepared foods section, the memory of my mom sitting on a low plastic stool in the kitchen making zongzi comes to mind. The warmth from the gas stove mixed with boiling pots of zongzi cooking on all four burners signaled to me the start of summer. Zongzi production is…

Dragon Boat Festival with TAP in SF

Come support Team TAPasaur for the 20th Annual Kaiser Permanente Dragon Boat Festival! Enjoy a great day out with the Taiwanese American Professionals - San Francisco (TAP-SF) community as well as many other organizations. 2015 Details for the TAP-SF Dragon Boat Team: We are TAPasaurSF! Come breathe fire and cheer us on as we represent the Taiwanese American community in the Novice Division on Saturday, September 19th, 2015. What to expect: Drum Beats, Team Chanting, Sounds of Raging Water. Food…