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buffetlicious · 2 months

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Bought some after dinner sweet snacks from Dough Culture (小麥家) before going home. Choose three pieces of 3-in-1 Sweet Cake which has a layer each of sweet potato, nian gao (年糕) and yam (taro) sandwiched together before dipping into batter and deep-fried to crispy golden brown. Also selected one Green Bean Cake which is sweetened mung bean paste in crispy batter.

#Dough Culture #小麥家 #3-in-1 Sweet Cake #Nian Gao #年糕 #Yam #Taro #Sweet Potato #Green Bean Cake #Mung Bean Paste #Battered #Deep=Fried #Crispy #Crunchy #Sweet #Snack #Dessert #Food #Buffetlicious

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shirozen · 3 months

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Happy Year of the Dragon! This year's art features nian gao （年糕）, a sticky rice cake that symbolizes rising to greater heights. It is often sliced and deep-fried with sweet potato and taro, making it a delicious snack

#art #original #illustration #chinese new year #lunar new year #year of the dragon #nian gao #插畫 #農曆新年 #龍年 #年糕 #步步高升 #步步龍昇

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morethansalad · 3 months

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Vegan Nian Gao (Chinese New Year Sweet Rice Cake)

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80g glutinous rice flour 25g wheat starch 150ml full fat coconut milk 80g cane sugar 30g vegetable oil natural food coloring- orange/red

1. Combine the glutinous rice flour and wheat starch. 2. Add the coconut milk, sugar and oil to a pot over medium-low heat. Once it starts to lightly boil, remove from heat and pour into the flour mixture. Mix until well combined. Pass through a sieve to remove any lumps. Divide some of the mixture into another bowl. Add 1-2 drops of orange food coloring and mix until evenly combined. Add more coloring depending on preference. 3. Bring a steamer to a boil over medium-low heat. To a koi fish mold, add some of the orange batter to the mold. Steam for 3-4 minutes. Remove the cover and add some of the natural batter. Steam for 5 minutes then remove from heat and add some of the orange batter. Steam for 3 minutes then fill the remaining mold with the natural batter. Steam for 10 minutes. Insert a toothpick to check doneness. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from mold. When you’re ready to eat it, slice it into thin pieces, dip in egg and pan fry until soft.

#vegan #sweets #Chinese cuisine #east asian cuisine #lunar new year #nian gao #rice cakes #glutinous rice flour #coconut milk #cane sugar #olive oil #vegan food coloring

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sixminutestoriesblog · 3 months

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lunar new year foods

In the last Chinese New Year post we talked about some of the traditions that accompany the new year's celebrations. We did not, by any means, cover all of them. A quarter of the world's population celebrate the Spring Festival and that's a lot of room for a lot of different traditions. For this post, I'd like to talk about some of the dishes eaten for the festival that have meanings that go a little deeper than simply being tasty, though they are that as well. I am not going to be able to mention all of them so I hope that everyone feels absolutely free to include them in the notes, tags or reblogs.

One can never have too many delicious food suggestions.

Let's start off with a familiar one. In many parts of Northern China, dumplings are front and center when it comes to meals. This is because the Chinese symbol for dumpling 饺子 sounds like 交子. 交 means 'exchange' and 子 is 'midnight'. So this play on word-sounds means to exchange the old with the new at midnight. In some areas the stuffing in the dumplings needs to be egg for prosperity in the coming year. The dumpling itself is reminiscent of silver ingots and the egg therefor adds gold to things as well. Alternately, you can add meat and bamboo strips which will make sure that everything you will need in the coming year will come your way. Don't use anything pickled however as this might lead to a difficult future. And lastly, don't forget to add a coin or a long thread to one of the dumplings. Whoever is lucky enough to find the coin will have good fortune and the thread is for long life (as long as no one chokes on it!).

Don't forget the fish either. The symbol for fish sounds a great deal like the symbol for 'extra'. Make sure to eat the middle of the fish but not the head or the tail. This will help you finish everything you start, from 'head to toe (well, tail)' so to speak. Also you shouldn't eat the whole fish in one sitting. Stretch it out into two meals so that your prosperity and extra will stretch out for the whole year as well. Have a business you want to thrive? Add red peppers to the cooking fish. Not only is red a lucky color, the spiciness of the meal will lead to a lively future for your business as well.

Nian gao is a must. Originally reserved for the gods and ancestors as offerings, these rice cakes have since become a tasty treat for everyone. Gao sounds like the word for 'higher'. Hence, if you want to go higher in the new year, you've got a very good reason to tuck into these delicious cakes.

You also want to keep an eye out for turnip cakes. They're made of shredded Chinese radish. 'Radish' sounds similar to 'good luck and fortune' so this is a tasty way to bring exactly that into the new year. These cakes are especially popular on the seventh day of the festival as a reminder that the goddess Nu Wa created humans on the seventh day.

Don't turn up your nose at unprepared food either. Oranges, kumquats and tangerines have a golden color that is sure to bring in prosperity in the coming year. Peaches will bring longevity and health. Muskmelon and grapefruit symbolize family and hope. And if you want a large family, start eating pomegranates.

#chinese new year #lunar new year #spring festival #year of the dragon #dumplings #fish #nian gao #turnip cake #folklore #superstition #word play

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thebleedingwoodland · 3 months

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^ Ignore the incorrect grammar on the graphic above, it supposedly says

恭賀新禧 (Gōnghè xīnxǐ) = Best Wishes for Happy New Year

Lunar New Year Update 2019

Lunar New Year Update 2022

✨ There will be upcoming Chinese New Year held on 10 February 2024, which is Year of Wood Dragon. ✨

Recently I opened The Sims 4 game again on Steam --- Yes The Sims 4 Base game is free of purchase on Steam --- Finally I can see soothing and relieving representation of Chinese culture in-game unlike sore eyes disaster what The Sims 3 team had done on Shang Simla for The Sims 3.

Definitely there's something positive on this representation of Lunar New Year updates for 2019 and 2022 that I can give applause to EA👏 , that this company team finally made consultation to actual Chinese (and Korean) people.

Lunar New Year is a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is the most important holiday in China, and it is also widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam, and countries with a significant overseas Chinese population.

Commonly known as the Spring Festival in China, Lunar New Year is a fifteen-day celebration marked by many traditions.

Not just celebrated in China, Korea and Vietnam celebrate Lunar New Year. So yes, we celebrate New Year twice, Gregorian New Year (1 January) and Lunar New Year (10 February, China Year 2575) in 2024.

I can only review about the Chinese New Year stuff part. I can recognize easily there's steamed fish, noodles, and Nian Gao （年糕） . And the most important part of Chinese New Year is....

🧧 Red Envelope （紅包）🧧

🧧 Hóng Bāo in Mandarin Chinese language.

🧧 Ang Pao in Hokkien Chinese language.

Who doesn't love money? You Westerners like money, don't you? On Christmas Day, Westerners have tradition to give wrapped present gift to people.

In Chinese New Year, we're Chinese people have tradition of giving Red Envelope with money inside the envelope. The person who give Hong Bao at Chinese New Year event is from married person to unmarried family members.

Wrapping lucky money in red envelopes is expected to bestow more happiness and blessings on the receivers.

There's addition of Round Table, Red Envelopes on Kumquat Tree and Orange fruit with Red Envelope on box. Yes Chinese culture is all about being prosperous and giving money gift in Red Envelope. I can tell you the representation is very good and authentic to us Chinese people that we can relate.

I can tell you team who worked in this update made consultation to Chinese people, that there are Han Zi (Chinese writing). 無魚不成席 which translates as "No Feast Without Fish" . Fish makes important meal in Chinese dining.

Here is more addition info:

Fish — an Increase in Prosperity

In Chinese, "fish" (鱼 Yú /yoo/) sounds like 'surplus'. Fish is a traditional Chinese New Year dish on the Chinese New Year dinner menu. Chinese people always like to have a surplus at the end of the year, because they think if they have managed to save something at the end of the year, then they can make more in the next year.

Steamed fish is one of the most famous Chinese New Year recipes. What fish should be chosen for the New Year dinner is based on auspicious homophonics.

Crucian carp: As the first character of 'crucian carp' (鲫鱼 jìyú /jee-yoo/) sounds like the Chinese word 吉 (jí /jee/ 'good luck'), eating crucian carp is considered to bring good luck for the next year.

Chinese mud carp: The first part of the Chinese for "mud carp" (鲤鱼 lǐyú /lee-yoo/) is pronounced like the word for gifts (礼 lǐ /lee/). So Chinese people think eating mud carp during the Chinese New Year symbolizes wishing for good fortune.

Catfish: The Chinese for "catfish" (鲶鱼 niányú /nyen-yoo/) sounds like 年余 (nián yú) meaning 'year surplus'. So eating catfish is a wish for a surplus in the year.

Eating two fish, one on New Year's Eve and one on New Year's Day, (if written in a certain way) sounds like a wish for a surplus year-after-year.

If only one catfish is eaten, eating the upper part of the fish on New Year's Eve and the remainder on the first day of the new year can be spoken with the same homophonic meaning.

Fish is an auspicious Chinese New Year symbol.

Glutinous Rice Cake — a Higher Income or Position

Chinese New Year cakes

Glutinous rice cake (年糕 Niángāo /nyen-gaoww/) is a lucky food eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve. In Chinese, glutinous rice cake sounds like it means "getting higher year-on- by year". In Chinese people's minds, this means the higher you are the more prosperous your business is a general improvement in life. The main ingredients of niangao are sticky rice, sugar, chestnuts, Chinese dates, and lotus leaves.

Longevity Noodles — Happiness and Longevity

Longevity noodles (长寿面 Chángshòu Miàn /chung-show myen/) unsurprisingly symbolize a wish for longevity. Their length and unsevered preparation are also symbolic of the eater's life.

It is a lucky food eaten on Chinese New Year Day in North China.

They are longer than normal noodles and uncut, either fried and served on a plate, or boiled and served in a bowl with their broth.

Good Fortune Fruit — Fullness and Wealth

Certain fruits are eaten during the Chinese New Year period, such as tangerines and oranges, and pomeloes. They are selected as they are particularly round and "golden" in color, symbolizing fullness and wealth, but more obviously for the lucky sound they bring when spoken.

Eating and displaying tangerines and oranges is believed to bring good luck and fortune due to their pronunciation, and even writing. The Chinese for orange (and tangerine) is 橙 (chéng /chnng/), which sounds the same as the Chinese for 'success' (成). One of the ways of writing tangerine (桔 jú /jyoo/) contains the Chinese character for luck (吉 jí /jee/).

Chinese Dumplings — Wealth

With a history of more than 1,800 years, dumpling (饺子 Jiǎozi /jyaoww-dzrr/) is a classic lucky food for new year, and a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve, widely popular in China, especially in North China.

Chinese dumplings can be made to look like Chinese silver ingots (which are not bars, but boat-shaped, oval, and turned up at the two ends). Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during the New Year celebrations, the more money you can make in the New Year.

Source: LinkedIn by Manette Chen

As for fashion... I'm not woman so I am not expert about women fashion, I can tell this clothing is not Chinese Qi Pao. My girlfriend and female family members do not wear that kind of Qi Pao. This is more like Ao Dai, Vietnamese traditional dress. There's skirt beneath dress. Source: Wikipedia

The rest of clothing is typical modernized clothing, which is much more realistic because we Chinese when at Chinese New Year gathering we wear red coloured modern clothing and not dress like in ancient times. Usually kids who wear Qi Pao because they are very cute to dress like that.

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nat-stimmy · 1 year

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Nian Gao (SOURCE)

#tw hands #tw sharps #tw knives #tw sharp objects #nian gao #food #food stim #brown #brown stim #white #white stim #slicing #slicing stim #stim #stims #stimmy #my gifs

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robotshowtunes · 3 months

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flourspilt · 2 years

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FAVORITE MEALS LAST WEEK: july 9-15

src. nian gao (shanghai rice cakes)

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jazzeria · 1 year

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Sun nin fai lok! (Happy New Year!)

I made a baked version of nin go (Mandarin: "nian gao", new year cake), which is very similar to Hawaiian butter mochi. Then I cut it into cubes and fried them in neutral oil--with a touch of toasted sesame oil for extra flavour.

The texture is crispy on the outside, and tender/squishy/chewy and sticky on the inside. My partner described it as: "Nuts and gum--together at last!" but in a good way.

When served warm, the inside is a little gooey (my preference); when cool, it's more firm.

Recipe: https://whattocooktoday.com/baked-nian-gao.html

I don't like shredded coconut, so I swapped for toasted sesame seeds. I also subbed out a bit of the butter for coconut oil.

If you like the cake to stay crispy on top, don't use an airtight container to store it. Just press a strip of plastic wrap or waxed paper onto the cut faces (the squishy parts) and leave the top uncovered.

The fried cubes get soggy in an airtight container, too. I think it would be good to keep them on a plate with a cotton towel on top.

Lore/tradition:

The story I heard about this cake growing up (well, the traditional version, anyway) goes something like this... Around this time of year, the Kitchen God visits your household to make a report about your family. But he also accepts bribes. And if the bribes are sticky sweets, they will stick his mouth shut when he goes to make his report!

My family comes from Hong Kong where the popular way to eat it is: cut into slices, dipped in a batter of scrambled egg, and fried.

#chinese new year #lunar new year #lunisolar new year #new year #nian gao #nin go #cake #mochi #butter mochi #new year cake #dessert #AW #shit AW says #stuff AW says #food

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shadowetienne · 1 year

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I made 年糕 (Nián gāo) this morning with my spouse. Our cake tins didn’t fit in the steamer, so I used the cupcake wrappers we had lying around, and I made some adjustments to the recipe I used based on what we had around (I decided I was going to do this at like midnight). They are delicious, and this is a good moment of giving myself back Chinese New Year as a holiday.

https://thewoksoflife.com/nian-gao-recipe/

Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快樂!

#Lunar New Year #Chinese New Year #Nian Gao #they're sweet rice cakes #they are very tasty and they were actually really easy to make

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thesoftboileddetectivepodcast · 2 years

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We neglected to post some of Tiffany's favorite foods! A lot of these are foods she grew up eating as a Mai City native.

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buffetlicious · 3 months

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On the Eve of Chinese New Year, mum and sis got up early to go to Chong Pang to collect the pre-ordered roasted chicken (烧鸡), roasted pork (烧肉) and char siu (叉烧). The three types of roasted meat, nian gao (年糕) and mandarin oranges are offered to our ancestors and gods along with incense and joss papers (金纸). The Offerings will be eaten for lunch or dinner while the joss papers burned.