Dumping Festival & The mystery of the standing eggs

09 Jun 2008 12 Comments

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Today (8th Jun) Chi­nese is cel­e­brat­ing a very spe­cial occa­sion, it call dump­ing or Duan Wu Jie in man­darin. I have for­got­ten how the his­tory comes to dump­ing, but accord­ing to chil­dren story there was this spe­cial poet in Chi­nese his­tory that lost in the river. Wor­ry­ing for his remains eaten by sea crea­tures the vil­lages threw some sort of dumpling into the river so the sea crea­tures will not harm his remains!

What’s a story! Okay, please don’t lis­ten to me I may get the story wrong :)

But one thing for sure, after cen­tury of dump­ing foods onto the river and still the remains of this so call “spe­cial” was never to be found and that’s when we mod­ern folk decided to dump into our stom­ach instead! ROFL!

I’m sure you’ll love it!

Chinese Dumpling, Dumping Festival

Chinese Dumpling, Dumping Festival

The next most excit­ing story would be the stand­ing eggs ROFL! Have you tried it your­self? To stand an egg thus “stand­ing egg”? hot? Excited? Let watch the next video just taken this after­noon… may look intrigu­ing :)

So what do you think? I was actu­ally amazed by it. There’s in fact no secret to how you can stand an egg! On a not so spe­cial occa­sion to stand an egg needs skill and you can make it hap­pen. If you want to make it stand with­out even a trial run than you would want to does it sharp at 12noon on Dump­ing Fes­ti­val day. For some of you in other part of the world, you can try it on the very first day of spring or maybe autumn!

In the name of sci­ence, the rea­son of why an egg stand­ing is because our sur­face are point­ing directly at the sun on these day. Of cause grav­ity plays impor­tant roles in your stand­ing eggs too :)

I hope you will enjoy your next stand­ing eggs and have a good day, god bless!

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  1. curryegg
    Jun 09, 2008 @ 01:33:28

    You’ve really tried it? Lol.… Why don’t you tell me ear­lier so that I can try eggs in the curry as well.. lol..
    I heard about this via the night news. It’s amaz­ing and I heard it’s because of the forces between sun and earth.
    True?

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  2. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 09, 2008 @ 13:10:06

    Yeah oh Cur­ryegg! My bad :) you can try it next year hahhahahaa

    Yes I tried it and it was fun! You saw my video right? You just need to hold it and let go it will stand! No sweat :)

    I will have my eyes and mind open next time  incase some­thing about “egg” may inter­est you. I have not post the cen­tury egg that I ate in Japan. Sup­pose to give my long life, for another 7 years at least haha­ha­hah that’s the Japan­ese believe.

    Cheers

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  3. laketrees
    Jun 10, 2008 @ 08:12:21

    wow Net­ster !!
    how fas­ci­nat­ing :)
    I will have to wait until spring to do this trick :)
    happy dump­ing dumpling day to you ;)
    hugs…

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  4. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 10, 2008 @ 21:36:44

    Kim­mmm muck!

    yes until the spring time come :)

    it’s good to see you Kim, your have got a nice cute photo, short hair? I like your long hair! your short is pretty too ;) hehehehe

    hugs

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  5. McKy
    Jun 10, 2008 @ 23:15:55

    woOOoOOo..nice dumpling i had 1 since last week..gonna have it another with RM 4.50 expen­sive dumpling bought in down­town KL .. cooL~

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  6. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 11, 2008 @ 09:00:43

    mck­yyyy

    wow your dumpling is sure big! 4.5? very expen­size can almost buy 2 lit of petrol already :)

    you have a nice day cheers & hugs

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  7. molly
    Jun 11, 2008 @ 11:05:11

    Hi Nester, You dumpling looks yummy, that’s my favourite, hard to get real nice one.
    I tried stand­ing egg few years ago, I did it the first time, so I thought it was sim­ple, but so far, I tried no more luck.
    Will bump in again! See ya

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  8. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 11, 2008 @ 22:57:36

    Hello Molly!

    how are you? Ohh you like Bak Chang also :) I nor­mally buy from BDC after hav­ing my Bak tuk teh!

    good luck with your stand­ing egg hehehehe

    cheers and thanks for bump­ing in ;)

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  9. slowcatchupkuan
    Jun 13, 2008 @ 12:22:34

    ooo i tried the egg trick before last time. i remem­ber being so amazed LOL it really works

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  10. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 14, 2008 @ 01:41:51

    Yeahhh! I knew some one would share the awe­some stand­ing egg with me :) hug hug

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  11. emila
    Jun 15, 2008 @ 21:17:07

    HI Net­ster! Looks deli­cious! What’s the inti? Is it coconut? Cool video, will try this at home!

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  12. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 16, 2008 @ 21:09:23

    Hello Emila,

    Yes it’s really deli­cious but this one is none halal! :(

    The stand­ing egg is really fun :) hope you will enjoy doing it haha­haha but I have to remind you that it’s not easy to do it :)

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