I often crave the chewy texture of rice cakes, also known as nian gao in Mandarin. You can find fresh rice cakes in Chinese or Korean grocery stores, usually in the refrigerated section near the fresh ...

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 ...

Whether it’s Losar in Tibet, Tet in Vietnam, Seollal in Korea or Chinese New Year in China, Lunar New Year is celebrated in vastly different ways all across Asia and in Asian American homes in the ...

Food is often the glue that binds a family or community, and that's especially true during Chinese New Year, the annual 15-day festival that welcomes the arrival of spring and the luck and prosperity ...

Eating foods that symbolize wealth, longevity and fertility is key to the Chinese New Year, which begins this year with a New Year's Eve feast on... About 3,000 years ago, give or take a couple of ...

For the Fang family of San Francisco, navigating the week-long Chinese New Year is typically a dizzying experience. Between their two restaurants, Chinatown’s historic House of Nanking, owned by Peter ...