The tradition was brought to Taiwan by Fujian people, where the festival is even more elaborate due to the hardships and ...

Following a lunar calendar, the New Year is celebrated on the second new moon after the winter solstice and continues for 15 days until the Lantern festival. This year, the New Year will be celebrated ...

Austin is home to a wide range of Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants—from Cantonese to Sichuan, and plenty of other regional specialists in between. Because hidden among our many breakfast tacos, ...

The police have targeted people who have advocated for ... “They want them to have bamboo shoots and proper bamboo to eat.” But many of their concerns, she said, “have largely gone unaddress ...

The spring roll is a common sight on Chinese dinner tables during Lunar ... Delicate ingredients such as bamboo shoots, water celery and shepherd's purse also featured. Poets of the day waxed ...

Anyone who tells you they don’t like Chinese food, probably hasn’t eaten ... minutes later it’ll be ferried out on a plus-sized bamboo platter, silk-like fillets spread with green ...

[1] For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making music. In Chinese music ... [4] The sheng was invented when people stuck bamboo pipes into a calabash and blew air into it to make ...

Somewhere in my childhood, between begrudgingly following my parents from restaurant to restaurant and spending my first ...

All the good feelings rush in with dumplings: excitement at the wisps of steam that rise from them; happiness at first bite through the dough; a thrill at hitting the ...

To mark the first Chinese New Year since UNESCO added the festival and its associated cultural practices to the ...