Tang yuan are sticky rice balls, typically filled with sweet black sesame or red bean paste. During Chinese New Year, the dessert represents family unity, as tang yuan sounds like the term 团圆 (tuan ...

Lately Marcelle has been enjoying grilled sticky rice balls, the recipe for which I found (and adapted) in the book "Seductions of Rice," by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. Makes 6 balls 2 large eggs ...

Sticky rice, aka sweet glutinous rice, is best steamed so its plump, chewy grains are ready to sponge up all the flavor. This dish from my cookbook “The Chinese Way” is a riff on lo mai gai, a dim sum ...