The Journey Continues

We have spent the afternoon boiling and a scrubbing each of the 300 bamboo leaves. Each zhong zhi will need two leaves so we're looking at 150 or so.


There will be a plain type, one with pork shitake mushrooms and dried shrimp, and the third will have a potassium carbonate mixture added (the nature of which I have not yet determined).
Sketchy solution for turning rice yellow and sticky

Also the shitake mushrooms and sweet rice are both soaking in water for three hours.
Tonight the entire family will commence wrapping...