About 3,000 years ago, give or take a couple of decades, the Chinese people began celebrating the beginning of their calendar year with a joyful festival they called Lunar New Year. They cleaned their ...

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 ...

2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, and with the dawn of a new year comes hope for what’s to come. Because Lunar New Year is tied to the year's first new moon, it starts anytime from mid-January to ...

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 ...

A colorful, festive rice cake. [PHOTO BY GENG FEIFEI/CHINA DAILY] On festive kitchen counters, fish will flick their tails in mid-motion, gold ingots will sit plump and round, and a square "gold brick ...

(Right) Freshly steamed ‘kuih bakul’ in moulds lined with banana leaves, showing the smooth, glossy surface achieved after 24 hours of steaming. — Bernama Sim (left) and her husband Saw removing the ...