The sticky rice cake is considered an auspicious food in Chinese culture because its name sounds like “higher by the year”, indicating a hope for more growth and prosperity in the coming year.
but the restaurant’s regular customers also love the steamed sticky rice with crabmeat and dried sakura shrimp. In Chinese tradition, it’s served at the end of the meal - rice is meant to fill ...
Traditionally, the sweetened coconut sticky rice is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed (in a similar way to Lo Mai Gai 糯米雞 (Chinese Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf), or roasted over a fire pit.