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 ...

If you ask an American or European about rice cakes, they’ll probably think of the hard, dry round discs made of puffed rice that are sold in health-food shops. The rice cakes eaten by many East ...

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 ...

For 15 years, Wang Shilong has been making and selling ciba, a traditional Chinese cake made from pressed sticky rice, in Dafang, a remote town in southwestern China. His cakes are popular among ...

Many households of Chinese descent in Saigon make a unique dish for the summer cleansing festival – the leaf-wrapped sticky rice dumplings 'zongzi'. "Chinese people often have fruit, wine and ba trang ...