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‖ yuan hsiao|jyɑn çiau|
Also yüan hsiao and with hyphen.
[Chinese yuánxiāo (in Wade-Giles yüanhsiao), f. yuán first + xiāo night.]
A sweet rice-flour dumpling made for the Chinese Lantern Festival (15 January in the lunar calendar).
1956B. Y. Chao How to cook & eat in Chinese II. xvii. 210 Orange soup with yüan-hsiao... Knead the glutinous rice flour with ½ cup hot..water. Then make into globules of about 3/8 inch in diameter. These are the yüan-hsiao. 1972K. Lo Chinese Food i. 56 Yuan hsiao is a form of Chinese festival sweet, served in a rather bland rice soup. Ibid. 57 We Chinese love these yuan hsiaos, partly, I think, because of happy childhood memories of being allowed to do the rolling. |