Every major festival in China has its dedicated food speciality, and for the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth lunar month, it has to be rice dumplings, or zongzi. The first dumplings were simple ...

“To be perfectly frank,” Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, “I rarely make dumplings anymore.” Given the high quality of ready-made ...

It is the time of year to eat zhong or zongzi, the pyramid-shaped sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaf that are the culinary stars of the annual Dragon Boat Festival, which this year takes ...

2006-07-05 04:00:00 PDT Shanghai-- Zongzi are complete, rustic packages that hold much more than their literal contents. In the United States, zongzi, or joong in Cantonese, are sometimes called ...

Properties: Opaque short-grain rice that primarily grows in Southeast and South Asia. Unlike long-grain rice, it has low to negligible amylose content, which makes it sticky upon cooking. Uncooked ...

Some families still honour tradition and handcraft bak zhangs yearly, while others simply order them from hotels, speciality shops or online businesses. Whether you’re team sweet or savoury, a Nyonya ...

You probably know that the Chinese food from your go-to takeout spot isn’t actually traditional Chinese food. It’s heavily Americanized (though tasty in its own way). Being the world’s most populous ...

If they were at their homes in China instead of in their homes in Naperville, Tina Cui and Kexin Chao would be in the middle of celebrating Chinese New Year. Unlike New Year’s Eve in the United States ...

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 ...