it is often served in a savoury dish called chao nian gao, which is essentially stir-fried rice cake, meat and vegetables. The rice cakes typically used in this dish tend to be oval and white ...

The leaves, Balamurali explained, add a lovely fragrance to the nian gao. Next, sugar syrup is mixed with glutinous rice flour. The mixture is carefully poured into the moulds before being steamed ...