Meiying Jin rolls the dough for tang yuan at Chang’an restaurant. Photo by Jean ... But what this Chinese dessert lacks in size, it makes up for in its large, symbolic presence at the dinner table ...

Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Jie in Chinese marks the 15th and final day of Chinese New Year. This year, it falls on 5 February. The Chinese usually eats tang yuan or glutinous ... Amazon Prime ...

“Tang means ‘soup’ and yuan means ‘round’ but also ‘unity,’” says Wu, who moved to Mexico from California nine years ago. “And clear soups on New Year’s have this idea of ...

The two-week Chinese New Year celebration ends with the Lantern Festival this Thursday, the night of the first full moon of the New Year. As part of the festivities, revelers will eat tang yuan ...

The dish is traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival, two weeks after the Chinese New Year festivities have begun. Tang Yuan represents togetherness and family, and so are also often eaten ...

Tang yuan (or tong yuen) are eaten by Chinese families for reunion dinners, such as for the mid-Autumn festival, winter solstice and Chinese New Year, because the round balls symbolise harmony ...