New Year S Cake Gao

I love nian gao it is so beautiful yummy and easy to make.

New year s cake gao. It s been a while since i last ate fragrant tikoy wrapped in banana leaves like the ones found in malaysia. We call it tikoy in hokkien my mother tongue. Yes i finally made nian gao tikoy new year cake.

While it can be eaten all year round traditionally it is most popular during the chinese new year. The ones i buy here at the asian grocery stores cannot compare. One popular dessert eaten during chinese new years is nian gao 年糕.

Nian gao 年糕 is chinese new year cake which is made from glutinous rice. Also known as chinese sweet rice cake nian gao is a delicious sweet treat that is made and served throughout the chinese new year both to family and to visitors that drop by on their new year s visits. It is considered good luck to eat nian gao during this time because nian gao is a homonym for higher year the chinese word 粘 meaning sticky is identical in sound to 年 meaning year and the word 糕 meaning cake is identical in.

A special cake which is made only for the celebration of chinese new year is called nian gao new year cake in mandarin. Nian gao sometimes translated as year cake or chinese new year s cake is a food prepared from glutinous rice flour and consumed in chinese cuisine. They lack fragrance and flavor and so i seldom ever buy them.

One of the reasons it s eaten during this time is because the words nian gao 粘糕 meaning sticky cake sounds just like the words 年高 which means something along the lines of growing taller every year similar to a pinch to grow an inch this is just used to wish the person good health in the new year. Nian gao means sticky cake it is a homonym for higher year it is a must have food during chinese new year as it has the symbolism of raising oneself higher in the coming year. Nian gao 年糕 nián gāo also called rice cake or chinese new year cake is a traditional food which made from glutinous rice flour and eaten during chinese new year.

For instance in indonesia this sweet snack is adopted by the indonesian community under the name kue keranjang which means cake in a basket.