Mother Tongue Nursery Rhymes

(1) Appreciation: "Red Turtle Cake" Taiwanese Children's Song - "Red Turtle Cake"

(2) Picture Book: Taiwanese Picture Book - Red Turtle Cake Sisters “chhōe"

During the agricultural era, all kinds of cakes and pastries needed for festivals had to be DIY. The basic element of cakes and pastries is rice slurry. At that time, every household had a stone mill. By putting soaked rice grains into the mill, they could be ground into snowflake-like rice slurry. The rice slurry had to be drained of water to make cakes and pastries.
The mouth of the bag containing the rice slurry was tied tightly, and the rice slurry was placed on a long bench. A flat shoulder pole was pressed on top, with ropes or cloths tied tightly at both ends of the pole and the bench,by applying pressure to the rice slurry. A water bucket was prepared under the long bench, and the water in the rice slurry dripped out slowly. The purpose was to drain out the water properly, and it would take several hours for the rice slurry to turn into rice cakes.
Nowadays, people rely on electric machines to make cakes and pastries, from rice grains to rice slurry to rice cakes, all in a matter of minutes, without the laborious process shown in the pictures.

Through the main character, "Red Turtle Cake," we get to know Taiwanese abundant rice cake desserts and inherit Taiwanese culture

(3)Come and see the animation we created and adapted.