Spring Outing: Make Rice Cakes and Go on a Picnic, Enjoy the Good Times

Caozaiguo is a traditional Taiwanese rice snack, and many people also use it to worship their ancestors during the Qingming season; in traditional custom it carries the meaning of "worshipping with guo brings jiahuo (property)."

This time we will invite mothers from the Neicheng community to teach everyone how to use a local plant - mulberry leaves - gathered on the spot, and pass on the whole process of making caozaiguo. After learning, everyone will take the cakes they made themselves and the farm dishes prepared by the local community mothers, pack a lunchbox with snacks, and explore the old trail together, picnicking along the Neicheng irrigation canal!

1. Event time:2013/04/20 (Sat) 10:00-16:00

2. Event location:Neicheng Village, Yuanshan Township, Yilan

3. Participants:No age limit, for those interested in handmade snacks, 30 people in total.

4. Event content:

1)Caozaiguo making experience: Local women will teach everyone step by step how to make this traditional rice snack, from grinding the rice milk to cooking the guo cui (tshei), stir-frying the filling, and wrapping.

2)Irrigation canal trail picnic: Let us ride the comfortable spring breeze, pack the traditional rural dishes cooked by the Neicheng mothers and the homemade caozaiguo, and stroll along the Qing dynasty old canal trail.

For event details, please visit the Sunfund Foundation blog http://sunfund.pixnet.net/blog/post/48966984