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Chinese Nosh Food:

Chinese nosh food originated from 1,500 years ago. It gradually becomes an unique culture tradition for Chinese people and not acts as regular meals. Nosh food is not served as formal meals for lunch and dinner time. Some of the nosh food are popular as breakfast food, some of them are served for tea time, some become street food and are only consumed when people go shopping and hang around on the street. Chinese nosh can be classified into snack, holiday food, street food and drink.

The top three hodiday food

Glutinous rice dumpling, glue rice ball and moon cake are the top three Chinese traditional holiday food which embodies the long Chinese history and the long Chinses food history.

Glutinous Rice Dumpling 粽子

Glutinous rice dumpling is the holiday food for the Dragon Boat Festival which was established to commemorate a great poet and politician Qu Yuan who lived 2000 years ago. The festival is on May 5th of the Chinese calendar. On the festival day, people will have a dragon boat contest, eat glutinous rice dumings and send rice dumplings to friends and families as a gift to celebrate the festival.

The rice dumplings are made of glutinous rice wraped with lotus leaves or bamboo leaves. People also invent various kinds of rice dumplings by adding their favorite food in the rice. Nowadays we have sugar rice dumpling, peanut and chinese dates rice dumpling, pork rice dumpling, yolk rice dumpling, ham rice dumpling and others.

Glue Pudding 元宵

Glue pudding is the holiday food for the Festival of Lanterns which originated 2000 years ago and is Jan 15th of the Chinese calendar. A big lantern exhibition will be held on the festival day. In south China, the lantern exhibition is usually held along a river and when the night comes, all lanterns will be lighted with beautful reflections in the water. Another activity is lantern riddles. Lantern riddles are written on a piece of paper and are hung under the lanterns or directly written on the lanterns in the exhibition. The riddles are usually in the form of poems. Whoever can figure out the riddle answer is regarded as a smart person and will be given a festival gift.

Glue pudding, also called rice glue ball, is made of sticky rice powder with sugar, red bean powder, sesame, almond inside the rice powder. Many novel kinds of rice balls are invented gradually, such as chocolate rice ball, banana rice ball, three-color (strawberry, carrot juice and green tea) rice ball and others.

Moon Cake 月饼

Moon cake is the holiday food for the Mid-Autumn Festival which is on Aug 15th of the Chinese calendar. Aug 15th is regarded by Chinese people as the particular day when the Moon is the roundest and lightest and when families should reunite together. For Chinese people, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important family day next to the Chinese New Year. The tradition activities on the day are enjoying the Moon and eating moon cakes. People who live outside their hometown will try to return home to meet their families. If they could not, they would like to look up at the Moon in the sky to ease their homesickness, because they know their families in the hometown are also watching the Moon and missing them.

Moon cake is always made round, like the Moon. It used to be the sacrifice food for the Moon God. It has become the gift for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Rregularly people use red bean power as the moon cake stuffing. Laterly, yolk, fruit, ham and many others are usde as the stuffing.