I’m not Chinese but it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the Chinese New Year as much as the next Chinese guy. After all, the celebration always heralds the abundance of one of my many favorite Chinese delicacies, the tikoy.
This Chinese New Year pudding, also known as nian gao, is made from glutinous rice and sugar not unlike Japanese mochi. Unfortunately, most people, especially the non-Chinese, only know of one way to prepare this sticky but tasty fare – and that is to fry it after dipping it in beaten egg.
So if you have lots of Chinese friends and you’ve been given more tikoy than you can handle, here are a couple of alternative ways of cooking the delicacy which do not exactly entail you to buy a carton of eggs as well.
Tikoy Stick
Cut tikoy in cheese-stick sizes. Wrap in lumpia wrapper. Fry until golden brown. Dunk in your favorite sweet dip. I recommend cheese spread and condensed milk.
