Koreans celebrate with tteokguk, a brothy soup that contains thinly sliced rice cakes. Warm bowls of snake soup are also on the menu in some Hong Kong snake shops, as the Lunar New Year approaches.

Whether it’s called Chūn Jié in China, Tết in Vietnam, or Seollal in Korea, there are commonalities to the Lunar New Year ...

Entering the Lunar New Year, Loyola's Department of Programming hosted a celebration for students embracing the cultural holiday.

In New York, the stylist and store owner Beverly Nguyen welcomed the year of the snake by treating her friends to a meal full ...

Many wonderful treats are offered during the Lunar New Year to usher in a sweet life for the year ahead: rice cakes and sesame balls, sweet dumplings and pineapple tarts, candied fruits and seeds.

The lunar new year marks the first new moon of the lunar calendar, which this year rises on 29 January, kicking off ...

And then as a dessert, yakgwa (fried honey-sweetened cookies) and yugwa (crispy sweetened rice cakes)," Baek explained. Vietnam's Lunar New Year, Tet, is a seven-day holiday and the country's ...

"We also have a cake, tangyuan, made with glutinous rice ... Wai Yee Hong Traditional Chinese dancing is popular during Lunar New Year celebrations The Lunar New Year event is taking place at ...

Wrapped in leaves and filled with glutinous rice, green beans, and pork belly, it symbolizes family unity and ancestral veneration. The dish, boiled for 12 hours over a wood fire, has been prepared ...

Or that noodles are seen as a key food during Chinese celebrations as they represent longevity, while in Korea a special rice cake soup is prepared. With Lunar New Year falling on Wednesday 29 January ...

Lunar New Year is also about showing off the absolute ... For many Chinese, the New Year dessert is nian gao, literally “new year cake”, a mochi-like confection made from brown sugar and ...

Koreans celebrate with tteokguk, a brothy soup that contains thinly sliced rice cakes. Warm bowls of snake soup are also on the menu in some Hong Kong snake shops, as the Lunar New Year approaches.