Gael Pattie

Chinese Lantern Festival Food. Chewy, sweet, and sometimes colourful, for most chinese families, lantern festival (the fifteenth and final day of the lunar new year) isn’t complete without the tangyuan. Everyone enjoys sweet glutinous rice balls (yuánxiāo jié in chinese).

Yuan xiao (chinese:元宵) is a traditional food for lantern festival, which is also called as tang yuan (chinese:汤圆) in southern areas. When the lantern festival is held during the chinese lantern festival, the culture of food is long and profound, and many of its branches have different degrees of symbolic.