Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year begins on January 29 this year ... Traditional Vietnamese banh chung is made with glutinous rice, mung beans and pork.

According to traditional Chinese culture ... only the wealthy could afford to eat rice and noodles on the morning of New Year’s Day. Any mention of death, dying and ghosts is considered ...

4. Nian Gao（Chinese New Year Rice Cake) Nian gao(年糕）is one of the most popular desserts during the Spring Festival in China, ...

Also known as Chinese New Year or the arrival of the Spring Festival ... There, Dr Lo said, it is popular to eat Nian Gao, a type of sticky rice cake which symbolises that the coming year will ...

Chinese New Year, known as the Spring Festival ... Meanwhile, people in the south may have rice cakes, which signify increasing riches with each year. Fish is also essential to the Spring Festival ...