The Cantonese, from southern China, use a different name for the Mandarin dish zongzi; they call it jung. Since both my mother’s family and chef Martin Yan are from Guangdong, I am going to use jung ...

2006-07-05 04:00:00 PDT Shanghai-- Zongzi are complete, rustic packages that hold much more than their literal contents. In the United States, zongzi, or joong in Cantonese, are sometimes called ...

With Dragon Boat Festival falling on Friday this year, bamboo leaves are once again returning to kitchens and food counters across China. Inside them, glutinous rice is wrapped, tied and steamed — ...

It takes two days of rinsing, soaking, slow-cooking and wrapping, just to make one batch of zongzi. That doesn't deter Yan Song, who for the past 23 years has made 1,000 of the sticky rice dumplings ...

We went to May May Food on Pell Street to pick up some steamed vegetable buns when this display caught our eye. Chinese-style tamales? According to The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, ...