Taoist priests perform the ritual of making sacrifices to the kitchen god at Town's God Temple on Jan. 18, 2009 in Xian, Shaanxi Province, China.
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There are a trio of important pre-Chinese New Year activities to do this week to prepare for Chinese New Year, which begins Jan. 23. Families across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are sitting down to dinner tonight and thanking the kitchen god. The dinner an annual tradition in which nian gao, a sticky red bean and lotus cake is served to the god.
Learn how to have a thank you dinner for the kitchen god and how to make your own nian gao cake to feed the kitchen god.
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