NYCAKE02_113_cl.JPG For Chinese New Year, a story on Chinese new year cake. Photo of sliced Chinese new year cake, stir-fried with bamboo and greens. Food photo styled by Traci Barr. Event on 1/22 ...

We fry nian gao (a sweet Chinese glutinous rice cake), as well as bánh tét (savory, though sometimes sweet, Vietnamese glutinous rice rolled into log shapes with a banana leaf).

Year cakes — glutinous rice formed into shapes — are also a tradition. Peaches and peach blossoms signal fertility, he says, but one of the most important things to include is food, clothing ...

Glutinous rice cake, or niángāo, is one of the most symbolic Lunar New Year dishes. Also translated as a “New Year cake,” niángāo is made of glutinous rice flour.

Tao just steamed common glutinous rice cakes before 2016, but after watching a television program about Chinese royal food, Tao thought, why shouldn't he try to make the eight-treasure glutinous ...

Glutinous rice cake symbolizes progress, advancement, and growth because the sound for niángāo in Chinese sounds similar to “getting higher year after year.” ...

Chao nian gao is a Chinese dish from Shanghai typically eaten during the Lunar New Year because it’s supposed to bring good luck. These “sticky rice cakes” can be hard to find in DFW though.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Wealthy Chinese-Filipinos are snapping up rice cakes decorated with gold and diamonds to celebrate the Lunar New Year in hopes of attracting good luck in the Year of the ...