Comments on: Chinese Sticky Rice (Nuomi Fan)

By: e M i

e M i — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:30:48 +0000

Love it! Thanks for the recipe! I’ve also grown up on sticky rice stuffing on Thanksgiving. It’s still my favorite, and my mommy wants to make it for me every year. Yay!! Sometimes we even get it on Christmas too. ;) I will need to try and make my own sometime now, with your recipe!

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:23:24 +0000

As a 3rd generation Chinese American (my grandfather was born here and my grandmother came over in 1932), I found this discussion so interesting. My family always has nuomi fan for Thanksgiving and I couldn’t imagine not having it! We eat it in place of mashed potatoes though, instead of stuffing. Although, I have to say I’m not much of a fan for mashed potatoes. Or stuffing.

For my Pau Pau’s recipe, we steam lop chong (chinese sausage), and lop yuk (chinese bacon) in with the rice, and cook the rice in chicken broth. The rice comes out so tasty you really don’t need to add any extra flavorings, although oyster sauce is sometimes necessary. Mix in the rehydrated shiitake mushroom, green onions, cilantro, and sometimes char siu if we have it on hand. And a couple years ago my grandmother had the brilliant idea to mix in the salted duck yolk for an extra saltiness and richness if we were able to find raw duck eggs. An added bonus!

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:05:23 +0000

Wow…its amazing to listen to the comments of “Asian-Americans” on what is traditional and not in America. Being a second generation Chinese born American who grew up in Southern California in a non-Asian community, this is HAS been a traditional Cantonese side dish served at Thanksgiving if your parents or grandparents immigrated at least to California during the 50’s – 70’s. And of course, they prepared and passed it down to their children and grandchildren. Newer immigrants from the 70’s to present, would not know of this tradition.

I agree with RSBeemer as this being a traditional dish since the 1950’s when the majority of immigrants were from Canton, China.

There are different variations and I couldn’t quite remember them, so a Google-search led me here to remind me what was in it. Thanks all for your recipe comments.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:44:36 +0000

I just made the first version and it turned out great! I did add some dried baby shrimps to be more like my grandmother’s. Thanks for a great recipe! Now that I know how easy it is to make, I’m going to be making this all the time!

By: michael

michael — Sat, 14 May 2011 23:19:47 +0000

A kao,You should have writen the measurement, sounds like you know what you’re talking about.

By: cheryld

cheryld — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:31:08 +0000

Woo hoo people from San Francisco! Dungeness crab for Thanksgiving? ;)

I’m Filipino-American, and we have this sometimes for Thanksgiving in stead of stuffing/dressing. I guess someone taught my aunt how to make it and she did. It is popular among many of my Filipino friends’ families – you don’t have to be Chinese to eat this! YUM!

My husband is Chinese/Vietnamese and like Meilene’s family we do Chinese food Thanksgiving too. Delicious. I look forward to trying to impress my families with this. Has anyone heard of/made of a vegetarian version of this?

By: Meilene

Meilene — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:28:57 +0000

Opps! I meant assimilate not asseminate

By: Meilene

Meilene — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:25:19 +0000

I was born in HK & grew up in an inter-racial household. We always had the American Thanksgiving with my dad’s side of his family. My American Aunts would come to help with dinner. We served turkey, stuffing w/oyster, green bean casserole, wine, etc.

My mom’s side of the family would come over on Friday and we would have a Chinese Thanksgiving. We had roast duck, soy sauce chicken, ox tail stew, sticky rice, gai lan, choy sum, XO Hennesy, etc.

Then on Saturday, we would have rice porriage made from the left-over poultries.

I read these post to my mom and she says it’s different for everyone because some families left the homeland 1 or 2 generations ago and some have come wanting to quickly asseminate into and achieve the American Dream. So sometimes immigrants and refugees have had to lay aside some of their culture. She says this is why she loves the internet, even if your family has mislaid parts of the culture, it’s so much easier to fill in the gaps today. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

By: chris

chris — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:51:40 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for this recipe while I was trying to find one to cook for thanksgiving dinner. It has been a tradition in my family to make it!