Things are heating up for the sixth-graders' cooking business when they get their biggest job yet while Peichi is busy preparing for her family's Chinese New Year celebration and all the rest of the girls come down with the flu. Includes recipes for brownies, chicken parmigiana, and fortune cookies.
After chasing the special rice cake, Nian Gao, that their mother has made to celebrate the Chinese New Year, three poor brothers share it with an elderly woman and have their generosity richly rewarded.
This book describes the origin, customs, traditions, and activities of the Chinese New Year, a holiday celebrated by Chinese people all over the world.