These days, giving Baby a veggie or a raw carrot stick to munch on will keep her still on her highchair during meal times. Here she is enjoying herself to the max with a lotus root stuffed with mung beans:

Here’s the lotus root stuffed with mung beans. My mil made a pot of soup with that and pork ribs.  Stuffing the mung beans into the lotus root can be quite a feat and very time consuming too.