What is “Ba Zhang” Day?

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I have talked about this in my now-defunct blog but it seems timely to bring this up again.

Many of my fellow Singaporeans would know; we tend to associate the food we eat on a festive day with the day itself. Ba zhang (肉粽) is the Hokkien term for rice dumplings with meat filling. Usually, this is eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie (端午节) in Chinese.