Instead of having dinner on the actual day of winter solstice festival, my family and relatives had an earlier dinner, which was a day before it. Winter solstice festival is the most important festival for Chinese to celebrate. On this day, we’ll gather together and make and munch glutinous rice balls which symbolizes reunion. Mom had ordered lots of dishes from a restaurant because she was too busy to prepare everything on that night. She always prepares food herself if there’s any event on going in our house but not this time. That is why she prepared lots of desserts (more than one is a lot already). Mom cooked red bean soup as a substitute of sweet soup to mix with the glutinous rice balls. Yums.