I had a neighbor who, every January, would drop off homemade gao on my doorstep. The steamed Chinese rice cake would be ...

In China, stir-fried nian gao served during Chinese New Year is closely related to the rice cake noodle dish known as bak guo in Malaysia.

First up is Chinese-style steamed rice ... (“mochigome”) that is the usual choice for the dish, in this recipe, the rice cake is placed on regular non-waxy rice (“uruchimai”) and then ...