https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/chinese-new-year-rice-cake/ Asian cooking, culture and stories of recipes Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:31:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thequirinokitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://thequirinokitchen.com/tag/chinese-new-year-rice-cake/ 32 32 https://thequirinokitchen.com/tikoy-must-have-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit-2011/ https://thequirinokitchen.com/tikoy-must-have-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit-2011/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:00:08 +0000 http://asianinamericamag.com/?p=244 Tikoy (say 'tee-koy') is a steamed Chinese rice cake with brown sugar and molasses. In the Philippines, an entire steamed cake is given as a gift for the Lunar New Year to symbolize prosperity and good luck. We cooked the Tikoy by pan-frying to soften it up. Once pan fried, each warm slice was crisp on the outside while sticky soft inside. The yellow coating of the eggs are close in color to 'gold', a symbol of prosperity. The chewy, gummy consistency of the tikoy rice cake are supposed to make sure the luck 'sticks'. ]]> https://thequirinokitchen.com/tikoy-must-have-in-the-year-of-the-rabbit-2011/feed/ 7 244