About 3,000 years ago, give or take a couple of decades, the Chinese people began celebrating the beginning of their calendar year with a joyful festival they called Lunar New Year. They cleaned their ...

Chao nian gao is a Chinese dish from Shanghai that at its core is stir-fried rice cakes (made with glutinous rice flour) and cabbage, typically eaten during the Lunar New Year because it’s supposed to ...

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 ...

2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, and with the dawn of a new year comes hope for what’s to come. Because Lunar New Year is tied to the year's first new moon, it starts anytime from mid-January to ...

For the Fang family of San Francisco, navigating the week-long Chinese New Year is typically a dizzying experience. Between their two restaurants, Chinatown’s historic House of Nanking, owned by Peter ...

This cake from chef-owner Kathy Fang of Fang, a modern Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s SoMa district, is one of her family’s favorite desserts during Lunar New Year celebrations, which fall on ...