Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival ... Nian gao is a traditional New Year cake made with sticky rice, dates, sugar and lotus leaves. It represents increasing fortune. Tang yuan, or yuan xiao ...

but the restaurant’s regular customers also love the steamed sticky rice with crabmeat and dried sakura shrimp. In Chinese tradition, it’s served at the end of the meal - rice is meant to fill ...

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 ...