Shandong Culture

10 Spring Festival foods to try from around China

By Li Wenrui (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2018-02-07

10 Spring Festival foods to try from around China
3. Rice cake ( niangao). [Photo/VCG]

Made of glutinous rice flour, rice cake has been in Chinese cuisine since the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Gold and white rice cakes become the symbols of gold and silver. And the Chinese character for cake is gao whose homophonic means growth, improvement or greater accomplishment.