Xin Tian Di joins the Chinese community in celebrating this year’s Duanwu or Dragon Boat Festival, to commemorate the life and death of the renowned scholar Qu Yuan. During the festivity, people race on dragon boats and, share on rice and meat dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves called zongzi or machang.

To take part in the celebration, Xin Tian Di showcases variations of machang available in seafood, traditional, and sea abalone until July 19.

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