The farmer instructed her to keep the single pearl in glutinous rice to help preserve the pearl, where Lin claims it remained in a tightly-sealed jar until she opened it nine years later.

Social enterprises have crafted them with pearl rice and oats instead of the heavy glutinous rice for those watching their diet. On the indulgent side, innovative bakeries have reinvented zongzi ...

We look at five kinds of a delicacy associated with the Dragon Boat festival, including one from KFC The origins of Zongzi, or sticky rice dumplings, can be traced back as far as 278BC.