{"id":7771,"date":"2019-02-05T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2019-10-27T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T19:25:53","slug":"chinese-new-year-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=7771","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Chinese celebration of the Lunar New Year is upon us!<\/p>\n

One aspect of the holiday that I particularly enjoy is how wordplay and homophones factor into the selection of traditional foods. An example is nian gao<\/em>, a glutinous rice cake sweetened with brown or white sugar and a homophone for \u201chigh year\u201d \u2013 with the connotation of elevating oneself higher with each new year, perhaps even lifting one\u2019s spirits.<\/p>\n

This is the Year of the Pig \ud83d\udc37 which, of course, is my cue to taste every traditional delight I can get my trotters on, but there was one year when the means by which to sample a particular nian gao<\/em> turned into a complete mystery.<\/p>\n

Curious? Please read my very short story, \u201cThe Case of the Uncrackable Case!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

 
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The Chinese celebration of the Lunar New Year is upon us!<\/p>\n

One aspect of the holiday that I particularly enjoy is how wordplay and homophones factor into the selection of traditional foods. An example is “nian gao”, a sweet glutinous rice cake and a homophone for \u201chigh year\u201d \u2013 with the connotation of elevating oneself higher with each new year. This is the Year of the Pig which, of course, is my cue to taste every traditional delight I can get my trotters on, but there was one year when the means by which to sample a particular nian gao turned into a complete mystery.<\/p>\n

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