Too Many Boiled Balls.

I just read a really cute blog post by my dad (yes he has his own blog too!) that I'd like to share. ^_^ Here is his story with my translation:

元宵節囉 吃湯圓

It's the Lantern Festival, so we have to eat tang yuan

(tang yuan = boiled balls of glutinous rice flour)

奶奶出去買了幾包湯圓

沒說

Grandmother went to buy a couple packets of tang yuan

But she didn't tell us

爺爺擔心奶奶忘了買湯圓

出去也買了幾包湯圓

Grandfather was worried that grandmother forgot to buy tang yuan

He also went out to buy a few packets of tang yuan

我從外頭回來 擔心家裡沒湯圓

因此我也買了幾包湯圓

I came back from running errands, was worried that we didn't have any tang yuan at home

Therefore I also went out to buy some tang yuan

這下好了

凍箱裡滿滿的

都是湯圓

Well now

Our fridge is totally packed...

with tang yuan

早上的街尾免費小報

居然出現訪問奶奶的照片和新聞

主題是湯圓

The free daily morning paper

Has an article interviewing grandmother along with her picture

And the subject is... tang yuan.

Translation of the blurb:

Mrs. Ji (my grandmother's maiden name) who lives in Flushing, said that her old husband and son both love to eat sesame tang yuan, which is why she wanted to take advantage of the [supermarket] promotion sale and stock up. Mrs. Ji recalled her childhood at her old home in Jiangxi Province, when her entire family would work together to make homemade tang yuan. They would buy glutinous rice and various stuffings, and then all the roles would be tasked out so that it was clear what everyone had to do. It very lively that time of the year. Now, there's less people at home [in Flushing] and she doesn't make homemade tang yuan anymore because the supermarket has a large selection of tasty and cheap tang yuan that's available whenever she feels like having some.