Taste of winter: Niangao

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-21 14:55
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With New Year approaching, staff at a traditional snack shop on Haonan Road, downtown Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, are busy making local-style niangao, a steamed glutinous rice cake eaten during the Chinese New Year. [Photo/ntjoy.com]

As the New Year is approaching, pastry shops in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, have been busy making local-style niangao, a glutinous rice cake that is a staple during the Chinese New Year. In Chinese, niangao is a homonym of the phrase "higher every year," signifying the wish for increasing one's prosperity.

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