Tuen Ng Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the biggest annual celebrations in Hong Kong. It takes place on May 31 this year. As well as dragon boat races, sticky rice ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Black pepper crab gets its dumpling rendition ($32 per pair) this year thanks to the dim sum chefs at Min Jiang Dempsey and Goodwood Park Hotel. Each parcel comprises beautifully steamed glutinous ...

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 ...