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 ...
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.
That story and the recipe are reprinted here: If anybody knows how to make Chinese fried rice it's Regina Mark, owner of Mee Sum Restaurant at 1819 S. Main St. with her husband Kenneth.