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Recipe for a Sweet New Year, or Glutinous Rice Dumplings with Rosewater(tangyuan 汤圆)

In Xi’an there’s a local specialty that I have thought about constantly since I left: it’s a small cake made from a dried persimmon (shizibing 柿子饼), stuffed with nuts, and then shallow fried, so that the flesh was chewy and … Continue reading

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Happy Chinese New Year, five dumplings to share (jiaozi 饺子)

It’s a northern custom to make and eat dumplings on the first day of the New Year (chuyi 初一), and we were determined to do it right, with several kinds of fillings.  We went out to Sanyuanli Market (三元里市场) to … Continue reading

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