Glutinous rice balls sold as Lantern Festival approaches
A citizen buys glutinous rice balls, a festive snackfood for the Lantern Festival, at a time-honored snack shop in Shanghai, east China, Feb. 2, 2012 as the Lantern Festival approaches. The Lantern Festival, which officially ends Spring Festival celebrations, falls upon Feb. 6 this year.
Nha Trang hotel serves up 37-meter-long tet cake
A ceremony to showcase a 37-meter long banh tet (traditional Tet glutinous rice cake of thick, log-like cylindrical shape in the south) took place at 6 p.m. on January 25 at Yasaka Saigon Nha Trang in the coastal town of Nha Trang.
Super Biko
WHAT? Did I just call it “Super Biko”?
Boiled Rice with Four Other Staple Cereals
Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- Ogokbap (boiled rice admixed with four other staple cereals) is one of the dishes the Korean people enjoy on the January 15th of the lunar calendar (February 6 this year), one of the national holidays.
Dark sweet chocolatey champorado
WAKING up early in the morning during my annual childhood summer vacation in Mambajao, Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro City always starts (well, almost a daily treat if I may say so!) with a hot bowl of sweet yet dark champorado. It is made with glutinous rice (pilit) and native tablea (locally produced bitter chocolate from pure cocoa beans), water and milk (usually condensed milk). And if my ...
Food for Good Luck
Celebrating the coming of the new year, whether Filipino or Chinese-style, includes serving the most auspicious food like noodles signifying long life for the Chinese and rice cakes to connote harmonious relationships for Filipinos.
KUIH BAKUL MAKERS HAVE HANDS FULL
BALING, Jan 15 (Bernama) -- As nien kao or kuih bakul makes an appearanceonce again during the Chinese New Year, the traditional pudding makers arehaving their hands full.For Ngan Chea Khong, 62, and his wife, Tan Chu Chu, 53, they relentlesslychurned out nien kao for the past 30 years using two firewood stoves to steamthe glutinous rice flour pudding to get the original flavours.He said ...
On The Menu: Special Dishes For The Year Of The Dragon
Phoenix of Prosperity Ping Pang Pong, Gold Coast The skin of a chicken is removed in one piece and the meat flavored and lightly sauteed with herbs, glutinous rice, mushrooms, sausage, lotus seeds, goji berry, salted egg yolks and simmered mung bean,
Golden balls with sweet walnut paste a Chinese treat
Enjoy this dish of traditional Chinese golden balls. When they’re warm, you can truly taste the rich, savoury flavour of sweet walnut paste. If desired, you can make them a day ahead. Cover and refrigerate, then refry golden balls up to two hours before serving.