Yesterday, Ah Mah made Tang Yuan to celebrate Dong Zhi, which is the celebration of midwinter ( the winter solstice) in the Chinese calendar. Mostly, it falls on the 22nd of December each year but this year, it was on the 21st. I only found out today but I don't think your Ah Mah knows that she celebrated it a day late!
The winter solstice is when the earth is at a point in its orbit when one hemisphere is inclined farthest away from the sun, meaning that is is at it's lowest point in the horizon - a day when it is the shortest day and longest night in the year (for the people up north).
For your Ah Mah, the significance of eating the Tang Yuan means that you are one year older.
For you, you only ate like 1/30th of the Tang Yuan and decided that it doesn't taste good and refuse to eat any more. You did however, liked the soup and drank quite a fair bit of the pandan leaves flavoured brown sugar syrup. (",)
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