The Lunar New Year, or Tet as my peeps call it, brings with it many favorite dishes. Fatty pork and sugar dominate the holiday table, harking back to a time when ingredients fat and sweet were much ...

Makes 25 to 30 dumplings. Put the water in a large pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Meanwhile, pinch off pieces of palm sugar and roll them into small balls, about 3/4 inch in diameter; you ...

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 ...

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 ...

The zongzi, or rice dumplings wrapped in leaves of my childhood, had the fragrance of jasmine flowers. In search for that unique taste, I went to the undisputed home of the best zongzi. Growing up in ...

These hotels and restaurants are offering a variety of creative savoury and sweet 'zongzi' ahead of the 2025 Dragon Boat Festival on May 31 Each year, paddlers gather at waterways around Hong Kong to ...

Making dumplings requires some dedication -- taking care to make a homemade filling, mastering the art of pleating, and steaming to tender perfection. When you (and your guests) put in such an effort, ...

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 ...