Eight Treasure Rice 八寶飯

It's my first time making this, so it didn't look good.  I actually only put 4 things instead of 8.

Ingredients

• sweet rice
• sugar
• oil
• dried plums (prunes)
• raisins
• golden raisins
• red bean paste

Instructions

1. soak sweet rice for 1 hour and cook it in the rice cooker
2. add sugar to your taste and add a little bit of oil
3. spray cooking oil in the bowl
4. put dried plums, raisins, golden raisins in place
5. add red bean paste ( I should of add a layer of sweet rice first and then the red bean paste, and finally the sweet rice again )
6. add sweet rice 
7. steam it for 1 hour

Osmanthus Sweet Sauce Lotus 桂花蜜汁蓮藕

Ingredients

• lotus
• sweet rice

Sauce

• water
• osmanthus 
• honey
• sugar
• dried plums

Directions

1. pell the skin off of lotus
2. soak sweet rice in water for 3 hours
3. cut one end of lotus and stuffed it with sweet rice (put the end back and hold it with toothpicks)
4. boil lotus for 2 hours
5. slice lotus and soak it in the sauce and put in the refrigerator