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Chinese New Year Special :
Sticky Rice Cake (Nian Gao年糕)
Chinese New Year Sticky Rice Cake, Nian Gao年糕 According to Chinese legend, one week before the Chinese New Year, the Kitchen God returns to heaven to report on a family's behavior during the previous year. A negative report by the Kitchen God means a family will suffer from bad luck during the year to come. In order to ensure a favorable report from the Kitchen God, people feeding Kitchen God with Sticky Cake that is very sweet and sticky as a bribe or simply a means of ensuring the Kitchen God's mouth was too full of sticky cake to pass on an unfavorable report.

Nian Gao 年糕 (Year Cake/ Chinese new year's cake) – Sticky Rice Cake is a food prepared from glutinous rice. New Year Cake (Nian-Gao). It is a traditional dessert and a must for Chinese New Year. The sound of Nian-Gao in Chinese also resembles a meaning of higher achievement every year. It's a play on words based on the name of the cake which in Chinese is pronounced "Gao" which also means "High高" and "Nian" (sticky) which also means "year年".（年糕 – 年高）

~ Recipe ~
Ingredients:

- 100g sticky rice (glutinous rice) flour

- 150g rice flour

- 1 glass of water (for making syrup)

- 100g (1/2 cup) brown sugar

- Water, as needed (for mixing the batter)

- 1 tbsp. of milk

- 3 tbsp. cooking oil

 Making Process:
  1. Make syrup with the water and sugar, let it cool.
  2. Combine two flours in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and stir in the syrup. Add the milk and begin shaping the batter. Add 1 tablespoon of water to the batter at a time, until the mixture is smooth with a satiny texture.
  3. Grease a pan that is 18cm round and 5cm high with cooking oil and pour in the batter. Steam for about 50 minutes.
  4. Let it cool. Remove it from the pan, cut it into slices and serve.
  5. You can also pan-fry the cake, dipping the cake slices in an egg wash before frying. Use small amount of oil. Heat the oil on medium-high to high heat, then turn the heat down to medium and brown the cake slices briefly on both sides.
  6. The outlook might be very different from which is selling at the market, but the taste should be similar and good.
Other Chinese New Year’s foods in our archive:
- Yusheng
- Kueh Bahulu
- Steam Fish
 
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