Third in line of our Top 8 Chinese New Year Dishes 2020 is a special twist on a classic CNY dessert: veteran home cook Geck Chau’s recipe for Pandan Nian Gao with water chestnuts! Of all the Chinese ...

Right after January 1st of each year, my parents spent almost every weekend preparing for Chinese New Year. My parents bought extra food, cleaned the house, and withdrew newly minted crisp dollar ...

Nian Gao JB, as the business is now known, started out of necessity. When the 1997 Asian financial crisis forced his employer’s company to close, Balamurali, who had just welcomed his eldest son, ...

In the Taiwanese village where my wife grew up, three or four of the burliest men made the traditional New Year cake called nian gao (“year cake”). Bent over a cavernous wok, they gripped wooden ...

Lunar New Year comes with a myriad of traditions, customs and auspicious acts, and food is far from being an exception Lunar New Year – which this year falls on January 25 – comes with a myriad of ...

Chao nian gao is a Chinese dish from Shanghai that at its core is stir-fried rice cakes (made with glutinous rice flour) and cabbage, typically eaten during the Lunar New Year because it’s supposed to ...

Stir-fried nian gao is a noodle dish rooted in Shanghainese cuisine. It is made of glutinous rice flour compressed into a long stick, then sliced and dried. This dish is also known in Malaysia as bak ...

Nian gao is a traditional steamed sticky rice cake used to celebrate Lunar New Year, symbolizing growth and advancement. The classic version made with glutinous rice flour and brown sugar is a little ...

Nian gao is a sticky rice cake. 年 (nian) means “year” and 糕 (gao) means “cake,” but nian gao can also mean “sticky cake” or “higher year,” because the pronunciations have double meanings. The cake can ...

Our family owned & operated Petaluma Grocery Supermarket on Main Street in Petaluma. Opened in 1941, our extended families became the second wave of Chinese to assimilate in Petaluma after the ...

Nian gao is a classic Lunar New Year dessert, but it has a short shelf life. Michelle Tchea reveals how to prolong it and make it even tastier in the process. With Christmas well and truly behind us, ...

As a child, I loved to sit next to the stove and watch my grandmother Paw Paw Hing cook. During Chinese New Year she would be busy making dozens of traditional new year cakes called Nein Gao. The ...