T & T, the Chinese supermarket (http://www.tnt-supermarket.com/en/) is selling them for the upcoming Dragonboat festivals. The regular ones are $2.49, 5% off for 3 or more, or 10% off for 8 or more. They have the big fancy ones with dried scallops and other seafoods for $3.99, 5.99 and 7.99, but I'm happy just sticking with the little cheap ones.
I bought 6, 3 meats and 3 vegetarians, but managed to pick the ugliest one to take an unwrapped picture of. In general, they were pretty delicious with plenty of filling, which justifies the slightly higher price in comparison to the other Zong Zi sold in the store.
This is the vegetarian one that had 3 whole chestnuts surrounded by diced shiitake mushrooms buried in the rice, which was flavoured by soya sauce. I think there was taro in it too, but there were so little of it that I barely tasted it. 
I had another one with black sticky rice, red kidney beans and dried longan that I thought was a lot more exciting. But the red kidney beans were WAY too sweet, making the whole thing a little hard to swallow. The red bean with rice one was loaded with red beans and sweetened just right, but unfortunately that was the only ingredient in the whole wrap, making it less exciting than the other selections.
This is the Cantonese style one with salted egg yolk, three big chunks of lean pork meat surrounded by a layer of crushed mung beans. I really enjoyed this one as it wasn't too salty, and had lots of satisfying fillings. However, my less forunate friend who bought the same thing ate her entire wrap to find no egg yolk in it. So cross you fingers for a legit one when you go buy these things.
Overall, the wraps are a little pricey but they do come stuffed with quality ingredients inside. Since I'm a huge fan of sticky rice foods, I'll probably be living off of these convenient lunch options for awhile until they stop selling them.
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