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Making red bean dumplings

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Making red bean dumplings

By the 1990s, Chinese festivities attracted wide interest and participation. The annual Chinese bazaar held by the Wellington Anglican Chinese community allows other New Zealanders a chance to sample such delicacies as red bean dumplings, which are being prepared here for the bazaar in 1995 by Ng Soon Yee (left) and Mel Jean Chin.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1995/3963/8-F

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Manying Ip, Chinese – An evolving culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/518/making-red-bean-dumplings (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Manying Ip, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.